Quotes by Jeane J. 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.”

“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.”

“History is a better guide than good intentions”

“Democrats cant get elected unless things get worse-and things wont get worse unless they get elected.”

“A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.”

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

“In essence, the motivation of the attacks on advertising is hostility toward capitalism and egoism.”

“The list of sins committed by advertising is limited only by the creativity of its critics.”

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

“Look, I dont even agree with myself at times.”