Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]

It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.

I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.

I am not a compromiser on fundamentals.

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.