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Jeane Kirkpatrick

Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick (née Jordan; November 19, 1926 – December 7, 2006) was an American diplomat and political scientist. An ardent anticommunist, she was a longtime Democrat who became a Republican in 1985. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign, she became the first woman to serve as US Ambassador to the United Nations.

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Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

Looks, Agree, Times, Look

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

Government, Democracy, Assuming, Quite, Frankly, Preferred

When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.

America, Blame, Power, War, Way, Years

The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been. . . important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.

Expectations, Law, Public, Two, Utopianism, Virtue

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

Democracy, Different, People, Requires, Understand, Value

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.

San Francisco, Issues, United States, Intransigence, Negotiations, Democrats

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

Character, Choices, Limits, Condition, Imperatives, Characters

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

Call, Healing, Matter, Think, Thinking, Words

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.

Body, Civilization, Limits, Talent, Temperament, Time

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.

Dealing, Pain, Pains, Position, Thinking, Views

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

War, Idaho, Class, Solution, Nothing

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.

Real, Believe, Giving, Society, Whole

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

Americans, Face, Faces, Matter, Needs

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Council, Debate, Effort, Political, Problem

There is no pure free-market economy.

Economy, Free Market, Market Economy, Pure

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

Government, Influence, Isolated, Impotent, Essentially, American

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.

Eyebrows, Wipe, Language, Religion, Extent

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

Winning, Roles, Bread, Respectable, Barred, Women

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

Believe, Heart, Maturity, Right

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.

Ostriches, San Francisco, World, Afterthought, Democrats, Behaved

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