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.

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

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