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Jeane Kirkpatrick

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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.


— Jeane Kirkpatrick


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Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.


— Jeane Kirkpatrick


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


— Jeane Kirkpatrick


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Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.


— Jeane Kirkpatrick


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There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.


— Jeane Kirkpatrick


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There is no pure free-market economy.


— Jeane Kirkpatrick


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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.


— Jeane Kirkpatrick


#bottles #concrete #dealing #frogs #got

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


— Jeane Kirkpatrick


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After the Reagan administration
In 1985 Kirkpatrick became a Republican (which The Economist called her "only recourse" after her speech at the 1984 Republican convention) and returned to teaching at Georgetown University. She "declared that what takes place in the Security Council "more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and later in his Cabinet the longtime Democrat-turned-Republican was nominated as the U. S. "
Kirkpatrick served on Reagan's Cabinet on the National Security Council Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Defense Policy Review Board and chaired the Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and Risk reduction of the Nuclear Command and Control System.

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