"If we insist that public life be reserved……" — Charles Krauthammer
"If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery."
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Charles Krauthammer
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120 Quotes by Charles Krauthammer
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
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Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its…
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The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate…
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[I]t's not the advertising, it's the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick…
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In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much…
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You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept…
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To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals…
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Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon--my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think…
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Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to…
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History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of…
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Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes…
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If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong --…
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
— Charles Babbage
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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