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 class people
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created
war party want-something
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
war wings faults
For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.
war years america
When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.
military war taught-us
Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.
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.
looks agree
Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.
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 .
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.
ideas government mind
No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances .