--- title: "16 Thinking Quotes By Charles Krauthammer" description: "16 Thinking quotes by Charles Krauthammer. Plus more from Charles Krauthammer and more Thinking sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe4/charles-krauthammer-1232_american-politics_to-understand-the-workings-of-american-p_1684373.png" --- > [To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/to-understand-the-workings-of-american-politics-you-have-to/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe4/charles-krauthammer-1232_american-politics_to-understand-the-workings-of-american-p_1684373.png) > [The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-great-divide-in-american-foreign-policy-thinking-is-between-those/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/daf/charles-krauthammer-1232_american-foreign-pol_the-great-divide-in-american-foreign-pol_1666994.png) > [I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/i-think-if-you-re-going-to-master-policy-especially-world-affairs-you/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/charles-krauthammer-1232_affair_i-think-if-you-re-going-to-master-policy_2627375.png) > [The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-one-thing-that-s-always-been-the-center-of-my-political-thinking/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c81/charles-krauthammer-1232_abhorrence_the-one-thing-that-s-always-been-the-cen_1830880.jpg) > [I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/i-don-t-really-care-what-a-public-figure-thinks-i-care-about-what-he/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/677/charles-krauthammer-1232_care_i-don-t-really-care-what-a-public-figure_1692868.png) > [Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/nuclear-doctrine-consists-of-thinking-the-unthinkable-it-involves/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a02/charles-krauthammer-1232_beyond_nuclear-doctrine-consists-of-thinking-th_2848225.png) > [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…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/633/charles-krauthammer-1232_airport-security_don-t-touch-my-junk-you-airport-security_132358.png) > [I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eec/charles-krauthammer-1232_argument_i-believe-in-what-i-believe-and-i-think_50333.png) > [Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/some-will-protest-that-in-a-world-with-so-much-human-suffering-it-is/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bf/charles-krauthammer-1232_animal_some-will-protest-that-in-a-world-with-s_2617611.png) > [I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/i-think-the-editorial-page-of-the-washington-post-is-the-best-in-the/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/484/charles-krauthammer-1232_balanced_i-think-the-editorial-page-of-the-washin_2624658.png) > [As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/as-the-romance-of-manned-space-exploration-has-waned-the-drive-today/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/915/charles-krauthammer-1232_betray_as-the-romance-of-manned-space-explorati_1088759.png) > [Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/life-and-consciousness-are-the-two-great-mysteries-actually-their/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c04/charles-krauthammer-1232_brain_life-and-consciousness-are-the-two-great_2585758.jpg) > [The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-liberal-vision-of-america-is-that-it-should-be-less-arrogant-less/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b83/charles-krauthammer-1232_america_the-liberal-vision-of-america-is-that-it_2675414.png) > [I think the first thing is to recognize a mistake that Obama made. And others have made in thinking that you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/i-think-the-first-thing-is-to-recognize-a-mistake-that-obama-made-and/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/charles-krauthammer-1232_economy_i-think-the-first-thing-is-to-recognize_1149604.png) > [I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/i-don-t-think-you-can-pump-carbon-dioxide-into-the-atmosphere/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/959/charles-krauthammer-1232_action_i-don-t-think-you-can-pump-carbon-dioxid_2843267.jpg) > [There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/there-is-a-mystique-about-psychiatry-that-people-think-that-you-have/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/149/charles-krauthammer-1232_believe_there-is-a-mystique-about-psychiatry-tha_1807968.png) ## Other authors on Thinking - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 447 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rush-limbaugh-81741.jpg) Rush Limbaugh 440 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/rush-limbaugh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 357 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hillary-clinton-42043.jpg) Hillary Clinton 292 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/hillary-clinton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 243 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cassandra-clare-21529.jpg) Cassandra Clare 184 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/cassandra-clare/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 161 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 161 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-einstein-10494.jpg) Albert Einstein 146 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/albert-einstein/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sherrilyn-kenyon-84925.jpg) Sherrilyn Kenyon 143 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/sherrilyn-kenyon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-taylor-swift-89132.jpg) Taylor Swift 137 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/taylor-swift/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-king-87054.jpg) Stephen King 137 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/stephen-king/) ## 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/thinking/charles-krauthammer/#itemlist", "name": "16 Thinking Quotes By Charles Krauthammer", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. 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