Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Quotes

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

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

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.

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

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.

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

When the Syrian ambassador acted up, what I really felt like saying to him was, "Go to your room!"