Jeane Kirkpatrick

“I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.”

“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.”

“I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.”

“History is a better guide than good intentions.”

“What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.”

“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.”