A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
– Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
– Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
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 J. Kirkpatrick
Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.
– Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
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 J. Kirkpatrick
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
– Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
When the Syrian ambassador acted up, what I really felt like saying to him was, Go to your room!