When we have something we feel strongly about — and in this case it is civil liberties and freedom and what this nation was founded upon, that we should do something to implement international law — and it is international law now, the right to leave a country freely and return freely — that we should put that issue of principle on the table knowing that the Russians are not going to agree to it.

(1974, opposing détente) "CNN Cold War", Episode 16: Détente, Episode Script. Retrieved June 2, 2006.