Richard Cohen

Leaving aside handguns and hunting weapons, what's the justification for possessing an AR-15-style weapon?

— Richard Cohen

I am not a German bitter-ender. I am, though, a German never-forgetter.

— Richard Cohen

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

— Richard Cohen

I am glad to see the Confederate battle flag gone from a place of honor at the South Carolina state capitol.

— Richard Cohen

Hillary Clinton looms over the Democratic Party like Evita from her balcony.

— Richard Cohen

Trump's overriding accomplishment is plain: The Republican Party can no longer be shamed.

— Richard Cohen

Trump's juvenilia stands in stark contrast to Obama's measured words.

— Richard Cohen

Something about the Clintons sets the GOP to howling at the moon.

— Richard Cohen

There was a time when an ordinary American could close the door and keep the world at bay. Now the world comes…

— Richard Cohen

Trump critics such as myself have been accused of living in a bubble. On the contrary, it is Trump's supporters in the…

— Richard Cohen

It's all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of…

— Richard Cohen

To anyone other than an adamant social conservative, Pence is shockingly unreasonable. But he is also shockingly hypocritical.

— Richard Cohen

I don't like what George Zimmerman did, and I hate that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I also can understand why Zimmerman…

— Richard Cohen

I came of age when jobs were plentiful and college not exorbitantly expensive. I graduated with debt, but it was manageable, and…

— Richard Cohen

Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to…

— Richard Cohen

We fear hackers lifting our digital wallet, a public accounting of our private lives, and we wonder if the shoes that follow…

— Richard Cohen

Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of…

— Richard Cohen

Since the end of World War II, American leadership has been essential to maintain world peace. Whether we liked it or not,…

— Richard Cohen

It has become commonplace to call Trump a reality TV star. That is said as an aspersion, the way Ronald Reagan was…

— Richard Cohen

Let me tell you, seven days without Wolf Blitzer is heaven. A week outside 'The Situation Room' is downright calming. No 'breaking…

— Richard Cohen

It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states'…

— Richard Cohen

I value my education, but I cannot put a value on it. I know it has been worth some money to me…

— Richard Cohen

“He [Edward Snowden] has been careful with his info, doling it out to responsible news organizations — The Post, the New York…

— Richard Cohen

The fact is that the United States does not need Israel. Our special relationship was not forged, as it was with Great…

— Richard Cohen

As a presidential candidate, Trump seems heaven-sent just to make fools out of Republicans.

— Richard Cohen

Harvey Weinstein does not personify American liberalism any more than Bill O'Reilly personifies American conservatism.

— Richard Cohen

The term 'disrupter' has become an accolade, like first-responder or something.

— Richard Cohen

I don't know if history will adjudge Barack Obama a great president, but he has been a necessary one.

— Richard Cohen

What's the justification for a semiautomatic weapon with a magazine of 30 rounds?

— Richard Cohen

Among the things I know is that Trump voters were played for suckers.

— Richard Cohen

Hillary Clinton may have lied about her emails, but Donald Trump lies about everything.

— Richard Cohen

Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?

— Richard Cohen

Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.

— Richard Cohen

I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.

— Richard Cohen

In order to take a nation to war, you have to believe mightily in the threat you are facing and the virtue…

— Richard Cohen

Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent…

— Richard Cohen

Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows,…

— Richard Cohen

The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

— Richard Cohen

Myths have a certain staying power because, really, they are aspirational - not always who we are, but always who we want…

— Richard Cohen

Iran may or may not be the existential threat to Israel that Netanyahu insists it is. But a lessening of U.S. support…

— Richard Cohen