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There is no pure free-market economy.
Jeane Kirkpatrick / United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Economy
Free Market
Market Economy
Pure
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Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.
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Agree
Looks
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History is a better guide than good intentions.
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Women
History
Good Intentions
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They (american press) always blame America first!
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America
Blame
Firsts
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Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.
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Kicks
President
Taken
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A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
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Government
Liberty
Political
Exists
Merely
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Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
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Movement
Solidarity
Thinking
Direction
Turned
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I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.
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Free Market
Modern
States
Thinking
Industrial
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Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.
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Air Power
Aviation
Civilized Nations
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It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.
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Carter
Malaise
Walter Mondale
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Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.
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Faces
Matter
Needs
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Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.
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Power
Ends
Used
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There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
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Fundamentals
Hostility
Regimes
Totalitarian Regimes
Fundamental
Totalitarian
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Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.
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Opportunity
Helping Others
People
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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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War
Conflict
Military
Party
At Least One
War Peace More
Least
Parties
Wants
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Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.
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Character
Choices
Limits
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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
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Humorous
Political
Republican
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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
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Democrats
Elected
Unless
Worse
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Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.
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Healing
Matter
Thinking
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Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.
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Believe
Heart
Maturity
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[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.
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Government
Influence
Isolated
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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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Equality
Conviction
Democracy
Unshakable
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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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Equality
Conviction
Equal
Unshakable
Requires
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Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.
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Bread
Roles
Winning
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I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred
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Government
Assuming
Democracy
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I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.
Jeane Kirkpatrick / United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Good Government Democracy
Good Government Always
Assume
Frankly
Preferred
Quite Frankly
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And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger
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Believe
Doubt
People
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And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.
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Doubt
No Doubt
Stronger
Believe World People
American People
World Believe People
Generally
Safer
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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
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Mistake
Salvation
Thinking
Umpires
Virtue
Conclude
Fundamental
Merely
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For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.
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War
Faults
Wings
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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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War
Class
Idaho
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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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Class
Doctrine
Poverty
Wealth
Provide
Solution
Seemed
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What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
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Council
Debate
Effort
Political
Problem
Problem Solving
Security
Security Council
Closely
Either
Place
Political Debate
Resembles
Takes
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Truth, 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.
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Baby
Bottles
Important
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All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.
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Body
Civilization
Limits
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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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Bottles
Concrete
Frogs
Mud
Scholar
Babies
Dealing
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The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.
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Army
Speed
Surprise
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Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
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Eyebrows
Language
Manage
Wipe
Languages
Russians
Extent
Feared
Neither
Soviets
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No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances.
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Government
Ideas
Mind
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Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.
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Entitlement
Lists
Mind
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Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.
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Government
Discipline
People
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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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Cosmos
Different Beliefs
Members
Beliefs
Cross
Cultural
Seek
Ruled
Teaches
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When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.
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Issues
San Francisco
United States
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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.
Jeane Kirkpatrick / United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Men
Administration
Bureaucrats
Democrat
Ink
Intellectual
Blot
Talked
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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.
Jeane Kirkpatrick / United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Encouraging
Detente
Expansion
Greater
Peril
Pursuit
Rendering
Soviet
Thinking
Western
Western World
World
World More Dangerous
Failed
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I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity
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Government
Self
Thinking
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I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.
Jeane Kirkpatrick / United States Ambassador To The United Nations
American Foreign Policy
Appropriate
Compatible
Dignity
Foreign Policy
Human Dignity
Policy
Self-government
Well Being
Peace People Always
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In 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.
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Agreement
Arms
Carter
Detente
Thinking
Years
Agreements
Period
Regularly
Soviets
Violated
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When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.
Jeane Kirkpatrick / United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Ostriches
San Francisco
World
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I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.
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Carter
Defeat
Economic Problems
Election
Inflation
Political
President
Productivity
Rising
Scientist
Study
Unemployment
Factor
Forth
Low
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