For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.
Jeane KirkpatrickVietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.
Jeane KirkpatrickThere is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
Jeane Kirkpatrick