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"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."
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"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."

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

"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."

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

"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 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."

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

"I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions."
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"Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides."

"We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy."

"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."

"I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves."

"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."
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