If the United States is to gain the respect of world opinion, it first has to
demonstrate that it respects itself—its own institutions, its own way of
life, the political and social philosophy that is the basis of its institutions
and its way of life. Such a sense of self-respect and self-affirmation seems to
be a missing element in our foreign policy.
Irving Kristol, The 'New Cold War,' July 17, 1975
