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His Quotes by John Podhoretz
- When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it…
- Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.
- The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.
- As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious…
- Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose…
- Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's…
- Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That…
- Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation…
- That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the…
- This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the…
- Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was…
- Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs…
More His Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the… — Neil Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold