A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created
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 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 KirkpatrickWe have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Jeane Kirkpatrick