American - Diplomat | November 19, 1926 - December 7, 2006
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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Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
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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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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.
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Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.
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There is no pure free-market economy.
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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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A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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