--- title: "15 World Quotes By Charles Krauthammer" description: "15 World quotes by Charles Krauthammer. Plus more from Charles Krauthammer and more World sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/593/charles-krauthammer-1232_americans_americans-are-not-intrinsically-imperial_590803.png" --- > [Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/americans-are-not-intrinsically-imperial-but-we-ended-up-dominant-by/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/593/charles-krauthammer-1232_americans_americans-are-not-intrinsically-imperial_590803.png) > [In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/in-reality-kyoto-was-a-huge-transfer-of-resources-from-the-united/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/180/charles-krauthammer-1232_climate_in-reality-kyoto-was-a-huge-transfer-of_2424701.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) > [ If \[Bush's\] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/if-bush-s-successors-don-t-screw-it-up-within-10-years-nasa-will-have/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/906/charles-krauthammer-1232_ifs_if-bush-s-successors-don-t-screw-it-up-w_1628633.png) > [The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-world-is-a-hobbesian-state-of-nature-in-which-the-struggle-for/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20f/charles-krauthammer-1232_domination_the-world-is-a-hobbesian-state-of-nature_1374363.png) > [Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/washington-is-the-only-place-in-the-world-where-a-gaffe-is-when-a/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/852/charles-krauthammer-1232_places-in-the-world_washington-is-the-only-place-in-the-worl_1130644.png) > [The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-way-that-trump-spoke-about-the-outside-world-was-the-most/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ab/charles-krauthammer-1232_aggressive_the-way-that-trump-spoke-about-the-outsi_2592413.png) > [Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/obama-was-quite-serious-when-he-said-he-was-going-to-change-the-world/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d1/charles-krauthammer-1232_change-the-world_obama-was-quite-serious-when-he-said-he_299438.jpg) > [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) > [Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/where-there-is-a-confluence-of-interests-among-nations-as-for-example/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/088/charles-krauthammer-1232_climate_where-there-is-a-confluence-of-interests_2224372.png) > [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) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-u-n-is-worse-than-disaster-the-u-n-creates-conflicts-look-at-the/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/076/charles-krauthammer-1232_absence_the-u-n-is-worse-than-disaster-the-u-n-c_1907562.png) > [The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-peasants-have-seen-the-future-greece-and-france-and-concluded/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d5/charles-krauthammer-1232_agendas_the-peasants-have-seen-the-future-greece_990130.jpg) > [ 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) ## Other authors on World - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 641 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/sunday-adelaja/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 475 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 297 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/barack-obama/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 284 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 207 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 198 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/mahatma-gandhi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 175 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/paulo-coelho/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 174 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/swami-vivekananda/) - [ ![](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/world/donald-trump/) - [Dada Bhagwan 173 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/dada-bhagwan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-marianne-williamson-63745.jpg) Marianne Williamson 169 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/marianne-williamson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 163 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/henry-david-thoreau/) ## 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/world/charles-krauthammer/#itemlist", "name": "15 World Quotes By Charles Krauthammer", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Krauthammer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/americans-are-not-intrinsically-imperial-but-we-ended-up-dominant-by/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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