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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

~Jeane Kirkpatrick

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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.

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And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

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Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

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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.

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Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

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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.

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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.

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We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

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A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Diplomat

Born: November 19th, 1926

Died: December 7th, 2006

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