Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

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.

There is no pure free-market economy.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.