--- title: "16 President Quotes By Charles Krauthammer" description: "16 President quotes by Charles Krauthammer. Plus more from Charles Krauthammer and more President sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e5/charles-krauthammer-1232_country_loyalty-to-the-president-is-great-but-lo_787038.png" --- > [Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/loyalty-to-the-president-is-great-but-loyalty-to-truth-integrity-and/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e5/charles-krauthammer-1232_country_loyalty-to-the-president-is-great-but-lo_787038.png) > [So far as Im concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/so-far-as-im-concerned-ronald-reagan-was-the-best-president-nixon-was/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/853/charles-krauthammer-1232_concerned_so-far-as-im-concerned-ronald-reagan-was_1502512.png) > [If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/if-harriet-miers-were-not-a-crony-of-the-president-of-the-united/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e03/charles-krauthammer-1232_court_if-harriet-miers-were-not-a-crony-of-the_552688.png) > [Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/ron-paul-is-not-going-to-be-president-so-we-don-t-have-to-worry-about/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f9/charles-krauthammer-1232_about_ron-paul-is-not-going-to-be-president-so_2902493.png) > [So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/so-far-as-i-m-concerned-ronald-reagan-was-the-best-president-nixon/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/charles-krauthammer-1232_best_so-far-as-i-m-concerned-ronald-reagan-wa_672125.jpg) > [American public opinion, as you can see in the polls, radically changed from being against airstrikes to being heavily in favor that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/american-public-opinion-as-you-can-see-in-the-polls-radically-changed/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5a/charles-krauthammer-1232_american-public_american-public-opinion-as-you-can-see-i_1228411.jpg) > [Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/every-new-president-flatters-himself-that-he-kinder-and-gentler-is/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa8/charles-krauthammer-1232_addresses_every-new-president-flatters-himself-tha_1068561.jpg) > [An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/an-oil-crisis-looms-prices-are-spiking-and-our-president-is-extolling/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3d/charles-krauthammer-1232_abundance_an-oil-crisis-looms-prices-are-spiking-a_2175663.jpg) > [Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/truman-left-in-the-middle-of-an-unpopular-war-a-war-of-choice-truman/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1b/charles-krauthammer-1232_20th-century_truman-left-in-the-middle-of-an-unpopula_867698.png) > [It is ridiculous to sue the president on a Wednesday because he oversteps the law, as he has done a dozen times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/it-is-ridiculous-to-sue-the-president-on-a-wednesday-because-he/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fac/charles-krauthammer-1232_deals_it-is-ridiculous-to-sue-the-president-on_2379395.png) > [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) > [Look, I don't mind if the President sends a budget which he knows is not going to achieve anything. But when he…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/868/charles-krauthammer-1232_achieve_look-i-don-t-mind-if-the-president-sends_124298.jpg) > [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) > [ To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And \[Russian President Vladimir Putin\] would only… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/to-go-into-ukraine-and-to-take-over-to-invade-crimea-is-a-huge-step/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87f/charles-krauthammer-1232_climate_to-go-into-ukraine-and-to-take-over-to-i_2466266.png) > [What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician -- the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/what-made-obama-unique-was-that-he-was-the-ultimate-charismatic/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c6/charles-krauthammer-1232_achieve_what-made-obama-unique-was-that-he-was-t_2937381.png) > [ The only reason the president insists on raising \[tax\] rates is because he knows it will destroy Republican unity, it will cause… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-only-reason-the-president-insists-on-raising-tax-rates-is-because/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e2/charles-krauthammer-1232_action_the-only-reason-the-president-insists-on_2898429.png) ## Other authors on President - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 230 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/president/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-jay-leno-47716.jpg) Jay Leno 197 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/president/jay-leno/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 174 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/president/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hillary-clinton-42043.jpg) Hillary Clinton 153 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/president/hillary-clinton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-w-bush-38036.jpg) George W. 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Clinton 67 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/president/william-j-clinton/) ## 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/president/charles-krauthammer/#itemlist", "name": "16 President Quotes By Charles Krauthammer", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Krauthammer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/loyalty-to-the-president-is-great-but-loyalty-to-truth-integrity-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e5/charles-krauthammer-1232_country_loyalty-to-the-president-is-great-but-lo_787038.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e5/charles-krauthammer-1232_country_loyalty-to-the-president-is-great-but-lo_787038.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e5/charles-krauthammer-1232_country_loyalty-to-the-president-is-great-but-lo_787038.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.” — Charles Krauthammer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "So far as Im concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. 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