All Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes
I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

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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.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
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