79 Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

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

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.