Zitat des Tages von Jeane Kirkpatrick:
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.
There is no pure free-market economy.
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.
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.
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.
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
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.
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.
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.
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
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.
Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.