Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

“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 talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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