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

“A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Freedom works.”

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

“History is a better guide than good intentions.”