Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation… — 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
We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
