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There is no pure free-market economy.
Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.
History is a better guide than good intentions.
They (american press) always blame America first!
Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.
It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.
Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.
Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.
Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.
[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.
And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger
And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.
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
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.
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
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 mud.
All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.
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 speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.
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.
No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances.
Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.
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.
When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.
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.
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 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
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.
In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.
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 - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.
I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.