In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny,… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People… — 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 don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray… — 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
The medical malpractice system is totally out of control. Everybody in the system knows it. And it's not just of the outrageous… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I'm not against international institutions that would try to tackle global warming. But the way to go, at least in the short… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?'… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in… — 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
