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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 25 quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick (née Jordan; November 19, 1926 – December 7, 2006) was an American ambassador and an ardent anti-communist. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and later in his Cabinet, the longtime Democrat-turned-Republican became the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. She was known for the "Kirkpatrick Doctrine", which advocated U.S. support of anticommunist... Read full biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick → 1 2 Ctrl → Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think. 0 And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and... → 0 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... → 0 We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. 0 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... → 0 Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. 0 And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger. 0 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... → 0 I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low... → 0 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. 0 I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. 0 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... → 0 Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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