The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue - rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget . . . in the final analysis . . . that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.

There is nothing wrong with America that Americans can't fix.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.