Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Trump's relentless public humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was clearly intended to get him to resign. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself. — 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
The normalization of Trump is one indicator that there may be less to the populist insurrection than imagined. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been out there, who has offered… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is… — 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
If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something --… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that… — 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
Obama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.There’s… — 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
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
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
“[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
I think the first thing is to recognize a mistake that Obama made. And others have made in thinking that you can… — 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
So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Trump's behavior is deeply disturbing but hardly surprising. His mercurial nature is not the product of a post-inaugural adder sting at Mar-a-Lago.… — 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
Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Obama is learning very late that, for a superpower, inaction is a form of action. You can abdicate, but you really can't… — 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
So far as Im concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but… — 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… — 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
Ted Cruz is a patriot. He believes in what he does. He's done marvels in mobilizing conservatives, mobilizing Americans concerned about the… — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.” — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share
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
“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
We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share
“The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity,' warns Czech president Vaclav Klaus, 'is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share
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