Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes - Page 2

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

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

Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.

They (american press) always blame America first!

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.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

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 real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

There is no pure free-market economy.

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.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

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

Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

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

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

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.

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.