American people Quote by Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

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 blame United…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

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, burps and…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

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 government] took…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick