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Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Type:
Diplomat
Nationality:
American
Birth day:
November 19
Birth year:
1926

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    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. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    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. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    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. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    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. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    Look, I don't even agree with myself at times. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    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. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    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. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    There is no pure free-market economy. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    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. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
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    What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving. Jeane-KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick