79 Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter – and Walter Mondale.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.