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" A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Government
Exists
Because
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" 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. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
End
I Believe
Power
" 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. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Been
Well
Time
" Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Get
Things
Unless
" Look, I don't even agree with myself at times. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Agree
Times
Look
" 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. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
You
Control
Spirit
" I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Human
Virtue
Think
" 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. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Sense
Meaning
Experience
" There is no pure free-market economy. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Pure
Economy
Free-Market
" Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Direction
Think
Movement
" Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Democracy
Value
Only
" 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
Think
Peace
Feel
" 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
Politics
World
Woman
" There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Religion
Absolutely
Part
" We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Something
War
More
" 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
More
Nothing
Mud
" And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
American
Doubt
People
" 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. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Languages
Feared
Just
" 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. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
War
Know
People
" What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
More
Security
Effort
" I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Good
Always
Democracy
" 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
Problems
Political
Defeat
" I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Modern
Free
Free Market
" 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. "
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Dangerous
World
Think