Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotations

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

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 .

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

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 .

Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.

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

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.

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger