Quotes from Jeane Kirkpatrick

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

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.

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.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

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.

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.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

We have war when at least one of the partes to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Lesser of two evils.

When we forget, or wilfully choose to ignore, the intractability of human behaviour, the complexity of human institutions, and the probability of unanticipated consequences, we do so at great risk, and often immense human cost.

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.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is no pure free-market economy.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

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.

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.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.