List of Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes

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, I Think, That They Had Negotiated During The Period Of Detente.

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 Countries Of The World. So I Suppose That We Shouldn't Be Too Surprised That It Should Infect The Church As Well.

Neither Nature, Experience, Nor Probability Informs These Lists Of 'entitlements', Which Are Subject To No Constraints Except Those Of The Mind And Appetite Of Their Authors.

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 Rendering The Western World In Greater Peril.

It Was Not Malaise We Suffered From; It Was Jimmy Carter - And Walter Mondale.

I Always Assume That Democracy Is The Only Good Form Of Government, Quite Frankly, And Democracy Is Always To Be Preferred

I Believe That Detente Was Having Almost The Opposite Effect Of What Was Intended. What Was Intended Was To Sort Of End The Contest For Power And To Stop Soviet Expansion, Especially By Military Means And The Military Build-up, The Military Contest

[the American Position At The Un Is] Essentially Impotent, Without Influence, Heavily Outvoted, And Isolated.

I Don't Think The Government (of El Salvador) Was Responsible. The Nuns Were Not Just Nuns; The Nuns Were Political Activists. We Ought To Be A Little More Clear-cut About This Than We Usually Are. They Were Political Activists On Behalf Of The Frente And Somebody Who Is Using Violence To Oppose The Frente Killed Them.

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. They Blamed The United States.

Cultural Constraints Condition And Limit Our Choices, Shaping Our Characters With Their Imperatives.

Maturity Is When We Live By The Truths That Are In Our Heart And Soul, Truths We Believe To Be Right For Us.