What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.
The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.
Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.
I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.
Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
