Party Quotes by Charles Krauthammer

9 Party quotes by Charles Krauthammer

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Krauthammer’s sharp analysis extends to the social sphere, and these nine quotes give you a quick taste of his intellectual edge.

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There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We…

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[I]t is more than slightly ironic that Democrats, the fiercely pro-choice party, reserve free choice for aborting a fetus, while denying it…

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If the president signs any of it, good. If he vetoes, it will be clarifying. Who then will be the party of…

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Pass legislation. When Obama signs, you've shown seriousness and the ability to govern. When he vetoes, you've clarified the differences between party…

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Look, I don't mind if the President sends a budget which he knows is not going to achieve anything. But when he…

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When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric…

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Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both…

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The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Democrats…

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What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician -- the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency…

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Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the…

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“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…

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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…

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With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will…

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The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

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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…

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“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,…

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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…

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“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.”

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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…

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“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…

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Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

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Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

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“The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity,' warns Czech president Vaclav Klaus, 'is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the…

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