Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes

• History is a better guide than good intentions.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Topics in History, Truth

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

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

• There is no pure free-market economy.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

  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 all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s.

  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 many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn’t be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

• 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 extent that we had feared.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

• 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.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

• 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 so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

• I think that it’s always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

• 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.

  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

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

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

• 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 of a cosmos ruled by God.

  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 especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

  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 created.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

Jeane Kirkpatrick (28)

Birth:	19th November, 1926
Death:	7th December, 2006
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Diplomat, Political Scientist

About

Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, USA. She was an American diplomat and political scientist. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign, she became the first woman to serve as US Ambassador to the United Nations. She served on Reagan's Cabinet on the National Security Council, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Defense Policy Review Board, and chaired the Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and Risk reduction of the Nuclear Command and Control System. She graduated from Barnard College in 1948. She earned an MA degree in political science from Columbia University in 1950. She received a PhD degree in Political Science from Columbia University in 1968. She wrote several books include: The new Presidential elite, Dismantling the parties, The Presidential Nominating Process, Dictatorships and Double Standards, Legitimacy and force, The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State, and Making War to Keep Peace. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

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