Words Can Destroy. What We Call Each

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

Look, I Don't Even Agree With Myself At Times.

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.

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.

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.