Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Obama is learning very late that, for a superpower, inaction is a form of action. You can abdicate, but you really can't… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“We grow justly weary of our politics. But we must remember this: Politics - in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the lesson of our history is that the task of merely maintaining strong and sturdy the structures of a constitutional order… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“America is the most welcoming, religiously tolerant, philo-semitic country in the world. No nation since Cyrus the Great’s Persia has done more for the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been fought with… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“International stability is never a given. It is never the norm. When achieved, it is the product of self-conscious action by the great powers,… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Look, I don't mind if the President sends a budget which he knows is not going to achieve anything. But when he prefaces his… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.” — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon--my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“The Russian Revolution and its imitators (Chinese, Cuban, Vietnamese, Cambodian) tried to atomize society so thoroughly--to war against the mediating structures that stand between… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
