#lit

When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle. ↗

— Chris Kirkpatrick

#between #clear #each #had #high

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#immediately #little #longer #takes #unconstitutional

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#conviction #democracy #each #equal #equality

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

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

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#fundamental #hostility #part #regimes #religion

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 think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence. ↗

— Mia Kirshner

#coming #define #discovering #existence #i

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#bad #give #ninety #other #percent

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#after #expert #familiar #leader #operate