In my several visits to Germany, I have written in admiration of that country's strenuous efforts to face its past and make… — Richard Cohen Admiration Copy Share Image
Raising money, like sausage-making, ain't pretty to see, and it would be just criminally naive to rely on the big hearts of… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees… — Richard Cohen Future Copy Share Image
Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will, but few fail so dismally as role models. He's a boy's… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
The more Scott Walker campaigns, the more he proves he is not intellectually fit for the office he's seeking. He asserts innocent… — Richard Cohen Ignorance Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was a paperboy, and the walls of the place where we picked up our papers were plastered with… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Say what you will about Donald Trump, he cares. He cares about things I don't, and he has some awful ideas, and… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger.… — Richard Cohen Childhood Copy Share Image
George W. Bush, a charming and utterly gracious man, was a catastrophic twofer. He took the United States to war in Iraq,… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and… — Richard Cohen Age Copy Share Image
Trump lies when confronted with the truth, since any crack in his narcissism might spread like an Ebola of the soul, and… — Richard Cohen Friday Copy Share Image
Republicans remain silent because Trump is doing what they want - lowering taxes on the rich, eviscerating regulations, bulldozing the environment, and… — Richard Cohen Body Copy Share Image
We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone… — Richard Cohen Black or white Copy Share Image
How is it possible to defame Trump? When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the president a 'moron,' was that defamatory or… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Trump is a dust storm of lies and diversions with the bellows of a bully and the greasy ethics of a street-corner… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that Ben Carson is a bit nuts. I say that not because I disagree with him… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Fox News has been a force in converting the party of Lincoln into the party of Trump. The network's allegiance to Trump… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Germany's crimes were recent and of such a scale and depravity that, unless constantly faced, they will come to seem fictitious. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Churchill had a marvelous way with words, and greatness accompanied him like a shadow, but in certain ways, he was a 19th-century… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
I met Clinton during her husband's first campaign for the White House. It was 1992, New Hampshire, and both Clintons had stopped… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that Rush Limbaugh is the dumbest man in America. This happens whenever I take him at face value and… — Richard Cohen America Copy Share Image
We need a national service that throws us all together, the urban with the rural, the Fox News types with the MSNBC… — Richard Cohen America Copy Share Image