Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

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

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