Jeane Kirkpatrick

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies,…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

I think that Ronald Reagan wanted to hear other people's views, and he always listened carefully, and from time to time he…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick