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Jeane Kirkpatrick

"A government is not legitimate merely because it exists."

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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."

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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

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"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."

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"Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver."

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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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"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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"Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think."
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"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."
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"The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's."
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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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