Jeane Kirkpatrick's Quotes

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

Jeane Kirkpatrick

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.

Jeane Kirkpatrick