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
character choices limits
Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.
taken president kicks
Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.
thinking world expansion
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.
economy market-economy free-market
There is no pure free-market economy.
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.
malaise carter walter-mondale
It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.
country numbers countries-of-the-world
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.
winning roles bread
Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.
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.
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.
war wings faults
For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.
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.
political president unemployment
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.
program democrat government-programs
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.