--- title: "13 Notable Quotes By Charles Krauthammer" description: "13 Notable quotes by Charles Krauthammer. Plus more from Charles Krauthammer and more Notable sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/charles-krauthammer-1232_counting_the-iraquis-can-see-it-the-kurds-can-fee_2589701.png" --- > [The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-iraquis-can-see-it-the-kurds-can-feel-it-the-jihadists-are/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/charles-krauthammer-1232_counting_the-iraquis-can-see-it-the-kurds-can-fee_2589701.png) > [Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/tuesday-s-victory-was-big-but-it-did-nothing-more-than-level-the/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c08/charles-krauthammer-1232_bigs_tuesday-s-victory-was-big-but-it-did-not_1760577.png) > [Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/guerrilla-war-is-a-test-of-wills-obama-s-actual-objectives-rollback/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51f/charles-krauthammer-1232_commitment_guerrilla-war-is-a-test-of-wills-obama-s_231288.png) > [The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-indecisiveness-and-ambivalence-so-devastatingly-described-by-both/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb8/charles-krauthammer-1232_ambivalence_the-indecisiveness-and-ambivalence-so-de_2758924.jpg) > [This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/this-week-iranian-backed-houthi-rebels-seized-control-of-the-yemeni/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc0/charles-krauthammer-1232_government_this-week-iranian-backed-houthi-rebels-s_2091659.jpg) > [The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-houthi-have-local-religious-grievances-being-shiites-in-a/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b7/charles-krauthammer-1232_advise_the-houthi-have-local-religious-grievanc_2977869.jpg) > [Obama has committed the U.S. to war on the Islamic State. To then allow within a month an allied enclave to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/obama-has-committed-the-u-s-to-war-on-the-islamic-state-to-then-allow/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea4/charles-krauthammer-1232_blow_obama-has-committed-the-u-s-to-war-on-th_700951.png) > [If the president signs any of it, good. If he vetoes, it will be clarifying. Who then will be the party of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/if-the-president-signs-any-of-it-good-if-he-vetoes-it-will-be/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d42/charles-krauthammer-1232_clarifying_if-the-president-signs-any-of-it-good-if_1746117.png) > [Pass legislation. When Obama signs, you've shown seriousness and the ability to govern. When he vetoes, you've clarified the differences between party…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/pass-legislation-when-obama-signs-you-ve-shown-seriousness-and-the/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/charles-krauthammer-1232_ability_pass-legislation-when-obama-signs-you-ve_2218107.png) > [Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/winning-control-of-the-senate-would-allow-republicans-to-pass-a-whole/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23b/charles-krauthammer-1232_add_winning-control-of-the-senate-would-allo_529681.png) > [The Democratic line is that the Republican House does nothing but block and oppose. In fact, it has passed hundreds of bills…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-democratic-line-is-that-the-republican-house-does-nothing-but/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b4/charles-krauthammer-1232_bills_the-democratic-line-is-that-the-republic_2197802.jpg) > [The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Democrats…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-2014-election-has-given-the-gop-the-rare-opportunity-to/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3d/charles-krauthammer-1232_agents_the-2014-election-has-given-the-gop-the_2373009.png) > [Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/why-should-we-care-about-the-coup-first-because-we-depend-on-yemen-s/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b59/charles-krauthammer-1232_al-qaeda_why-should-we-care-about-the-coup-first_699401.png) ## Other authors on Notable ## More by Charles Krauthammer > [Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/obama-and-the-democrats-were-so-critical-of-what-bush-did-the/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/america-is-the-most-welcoming-religiously-tolerant-philo-semitic/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/i-believe-in-what-i-believe-and-i-think-after-all-these-years-i-ve/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/with-our-financial-house-on-fire-obama-makes-clear-both-in-in-his/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-conservative-idea-is-not-that-government-has-no-role-you-might/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-war-is-not-going-well-and-it-is-time-to-say-why-it-has-been/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/international-stability-is-never-a-given-it-is-never-the-norm-when/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/look-i-don-t-mind-if-the-president-sends-a-budget-which-he-knows-is/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/politics-is-the-moat-the-walls-beyond-which-lie-the-barbarians-fail/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/don-t-touch-my-junk-you-airport-security-goon-my-package-belongs-to/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-russian-revolution-and-its-imitators-chinese-cuban-vietnamese/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/where-religion-is-trivialized-one-is-unlikely-to-find-persecution/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/we-must-now-brace-ourselves-for-disquisitions-on-peer-pressure/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/post-watergate-morality-by-which-anything-left-private-is-taken-as/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity,' warns Czech president Vaclav Klaus, 'is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-largest-threat-to-freedom-democracy-the-market-economy-and/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/notable/charles-krauthammer/#itemlist", "name": "13 Notable Quotes By Charles Krauthammer", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. 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