79 Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick

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.

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

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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