Quotes from Jeane Kirkpatrick

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

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.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

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

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

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