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 More Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick More Quotes From Jeane Kirkpatrick I think that Ronald Reagan wanted to hear other people's views, and he always listened carefully, and from time to time he changed his own mind about a position. And especially he took pains to listen carefully to foreign leaders with whom he was dealing. Jeane Kirkpatrick pain views thinking Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable. Jeane Kirkpatrick roles bread winning There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. Jeane Kirkpatrick totalitarian-regimes regimes fundamentals 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 idaho class war 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 discipline government people I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states. Jeane Kirkpatrick modern states thinking Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. Jeane Kirkpatrick civilized-nations air-power aviation 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 unemployment political president 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 government self thinking We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. Jeane Kirkpatrick party military war 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. Jeane Kirkpatrick ostriches san-francisco world 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 eyebrows wipe language 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 countries-of-the-world numbers country 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. Jeane Kirkpatrick cutting government thinking Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives. Jeane Kirkpatrick limits choices character The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers. Jeane Kirkpatrick speed surprise army 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 mind ideas They (american press) always blame America first! Jeane Kirkpatrick blame america firsts 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. Jeane Kirkpatrick san-francisco issues united-states 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. Jeane Kirkpatrick real giving believe
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