“ 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
“ Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom security and the enjoyment of opportunity. Jeane Kirkpatrick
“ We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. Jeane Kirkpatrick
“ Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Jeane Kirkpatrick
“ 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
“ 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
“ There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. Jeane Kirkpatrick
“ 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… Jeane Kirkpatrick
“ 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 dig… Jeane Kirkpatrick
“ 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
