“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
Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Turns out we need to know one more thing on earth: politics--because of its capacity, when benign, to allow all around it… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“...even God cannot match the cruelty of his creation. For every Santorini, there are a hundred massacres of innocents. And that is… — 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
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often… — 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… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature.… — 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
This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday,… — 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
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Since forever, infrastructure has been consensually understood to be a core function of government. The argument between left and right is about… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“To say that all individuals are embedded in and the product of society is banal. Obama rises above banality by means of… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Beyond infrastructure, the conservative sees the proper role of government as providing not European-style universal entitlements but a firm safety net, meaning… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is a capacity so godlike, so protean that it must be contained and disciplined. This is the work of politics—understood as… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“It is part of the trivialization of politics that we give endless attention to the inner life of the politician - his… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Constitutionalism as a guiding political tendency will require careful and thoughtful development, as did jurisprudential originalism. But its wide appeal and philosophical… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician -- the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Modern liberalism's perfectionist ambitions - reflected in its progenitor (and current euphemism), progressivism - seeks to harness the power of government, the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“[John] Adams saw clearly that politics is the indispensable foundation for things elegant and beautiful. First and above all else, you must… — 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
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