Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick

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[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

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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

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Idaho

War

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

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Political

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

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Civilization

Limits

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

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Matter

Needs

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

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Doubt

People

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.

Expansion

Thinking

World

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.

Character

Choices

Limits

Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.

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Government

People

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

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Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick

Jeane Kirkpatrick

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

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

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

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.

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.

Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

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