Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

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.

There is no pure free-market economy.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

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.

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

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.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

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.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

My friends and I have always loved the Neutrogena brand and their ability to help inspire confidence. So when I found out I was actually going to be part of the Neutrogena family, I was really excited.

It's always overwhelming when you get a nice response to something, because you really invest in these projects, and you can't help but really care what other people think.

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling.

I hang out with dudes a lot. I can relate to being the guys girl.

I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

I'm a better cook and more of a perfectionist than my mother.

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.

Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something but if you get it on tape and show it to them it is so much more effective.

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.

Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

Never give a sucker an even break.

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.