Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes

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• Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.
• 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…
• 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 States'…
• They always blame America first!
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• There is no pure free-market economy.
• 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…
• I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats.…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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,…
• Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles,…
• Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members…
• Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

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