"When a party is in opposition, it opposes.……" — Charles Krauthammer
"When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born."
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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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