Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.
Jeane KirkpatrickDemocrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
Jeane KirkpatrickTruth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.
Jeane KirkpatrickDemocracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
Jeane Kirkpatrick