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 Kirkpatrick Read Quote
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. Jeane Kirkpatrick Read Quote
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred. Jeane Kirkpatrick Read Quote
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 Kirkpatrick Read Quote
Democrats can’t get elected unless things get worse – and things won’t get worse unless they get elected. Jeane Kirkpatrick Read Quote
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 Kirkpatrick Read Quote
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 Kirkpatrick Read Quote
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. Jeane Kirkpatrick Read Quote
