[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.
Jeane KirkpatrickIn 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 KirkpatrickSociety has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.
Jeane KirkpatrickI don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them.
Jeane Kirkpatrick