Jeane Kirkpatrick - Quotes

Quotes

  • "When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the San Francisco Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies. They blame United States policies of one hundred years ago. But then they always blame America first."
  • "Russia is playing chess, while we are playing Monopoly. The only question is whether they will checkmate us before we bankrupt them."
  • "Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is."
  • "I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them." As U.N. Ambassador-designate Kirkpatrick rationalized the rapes, torture, and murders of three American sisters and a Catholic lay worker on 16 December 1980, two weeks after the four were slain by subsequently convicted security forces.

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