Truth, Which Is Important To A Scholar,

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.

The Absence Of Utopianism In The Constitution, Law, And Traditional Political Culture Has Been ... Important In Limiting Expectations Concerning What Can Be Achieved By Politics. The History Of The Last Two Centuries Confirms What The Framers Of The Constitution Understood: That The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good, And The Search For Unalloyed Virtue In Public Life Leads To Unalloyed Terror.

Democrats Can't Get Elected Unless Things Get Worse-and Things Won't Get Worse Unless They Get Elected.

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.

There Is An Absolutely Fundamental Hostility On The Part Of Totalitarian Regimes Toward Religion.