Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane J. Kirkpatrickwas an American ambassador and an ardent anticommunist. She was a longtime Democrat, who turned Republican in 1985. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 November 1926
CityDuncan, OK
CountryUnited States of America
Jeane Kirkpatrick quotes about
army surprise speed
The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.
government people discipline
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse .
looks agree
Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.
law two perfect
The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.
war wings faults
For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.
helping-others opportunity people
Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.
power instruments used
Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.
civilization body limits
All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.
government influence position
[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.
winning roles bread
Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.
taken president kicks
Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.
malaise carter walter-mondale
It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.
ostriches san-francisco world
When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.
economy market-economy free-market
There is no pure free-market economy.