I think that Ronald Reagan wanted to hear other people's views, and he always listened carefully, and from time to time he changed his own mind about a position. And especially he took pains to listen carefully to foreign leaders… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
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