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
I think that its 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. – Jeane Kirkpatrick
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. – Jeane Kirkpatrick
When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. – William Hague