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
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.
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.
fundamentals regimes totalitarian-regimes
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
war party want-something
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
faces needs matter
Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.
eyebrows wipe language
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.
san-francisco issues unions
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.
real believe giving
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.