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
mistake thinking justice
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
democracy conviction unshakable
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal
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.
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.
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.
cosmos cross cultural experience members people ruled seek simply teaches themselves understand
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.
acted ambassador felt saying syrian
When the Syrian ambassador acted up, what I really felt like saying to him was, "Go to your room!