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• I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Thinking, Modern, States

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• There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Fundamentals, Regimes, Totalitarian Regimes

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• No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Government, Ideas, Mind

  "Jeane Kirkpatrick, Realist" by Timothy Noah, www.slate.com. December 08, 2006.

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• 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.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Government, Discipline, People

  "Jeane Kirkpatrick". www.economist.com. December 19, 2006.

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• They (american press) always blame America first!

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  America, Firsts, Blame

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• I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

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  Government, Democracy, Assuming

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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

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  Believe, People, Doubt

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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.

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  Thinking, Expansion, World

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• There is no pure free-market economy.

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  Economy, Market Economy, Free Market

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• 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.

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  Real, Believe, Giving

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• 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.

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  Political, President, Unemployment

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• Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

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  Winning, Roles, Bread

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1974). “Political woman”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

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  Civilized Nations, Air Power, Aviation

  Jeane Kirkpatrick's speech to the U.N. Security Council, www.upi.com. September 6, 1983.

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• When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

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  Ostriches, San Francisco, World

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (2018). “Legitimacy and Force: State Papers and Current Perspectives: Volume 1: Political and Moral Dimensions”, p.594, Routledge

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• 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.

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  Eyebrows, Wipe, Language

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• Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Thinking, Movement, Solidarity

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• Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

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  Believe, Heart, Maturity

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

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  Malaise, Carter, Walter Mondale

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “National and international dimensions”, p.419, Transaction Publishers

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• I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them.

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  Cutting, Thinking, Government

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

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  Character, Choices, Limits

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1983). “The Reagan phenomenon, and other speeches on foreign policy”, Aei Pr

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• When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

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  San Francisco, Issues, United States

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “National and international dimensions”, p.420, Transaction Publishers

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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.

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  Country, Countries Of The World, Numbers

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• Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.

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  Mind, Lists, Entitlement

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1982). “Human Rights and American Foreign Policy: Essays”

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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.

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  Thinking, Agreement, Years

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

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  Government, Influence, Isolated

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