Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. – Jeane Kirkpatrick
I was a woman in a mans 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
The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they dont at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesars and unto God that which is Gods. – Jeane Kirkpatrick
Just as the Russians and the Soviets didnt manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared. – Jeane Kirkpatrick
The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars – an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do. – Michael D. Higgins