Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can… — 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
