Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

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

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

History is a better guide than good intentions.

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

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

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

Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.

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

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

They always blame America first!

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

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

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

We have war when at least one of the partes to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration

There is no pure free-market economy.

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.

Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

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

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

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

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

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

Lesser of two evils.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.