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
Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural… — 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 world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would only… — 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
Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history. — 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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