#la

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. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#defeat #economic #economic problems #election #factor

In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#arms #before #both #carter #control

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

#feared #had #just #languages #manage

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#church #countries #fashionable #i #infect

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#caesar #claimed #give #god #jurisdiction

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

#council #debate #effort #either #more

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#gonna #i #oscars #playing #think

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#attempting #blessed #destiny #eye #flinching

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. ↗