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
cutting thinking government
I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them.
thinking movement solidarity
Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
thinking modern states
I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.
thinking years agreement
In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.
thinking government self
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
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.
pain thinking views
I think that Ronald Reagan wanted to hear other people's views, and he always listened carefully, and from time to time he changed his own mind about a position. And especially he took pains to listen carefully to foreign leaders with whom he was dealing.
healing thinking matter
Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.
mistake thinking justice
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
america firsts blame
They always blame America first!
acted ambassador felt saying syrian
When the Syrian ambassador acted up, what I really felt like saying to him was, "Go to your room!
unless
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
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.
concrete dealing frogs
Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.