When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Sovie….

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises Americ….

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think..

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.

Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic gover….

No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere und….

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and….

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives..

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.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is..

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion..

They (american press) always blame America first!.

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale..

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists..

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations..

The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what….

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and es….

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable..

I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a littl….

When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich ….

When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame Un….