Charles Krauthammer Quotes
Top 62 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.
I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong
on other worlds.
on other worlds.
Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.
In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.
So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.
I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
The more settled and ordered one's life - and in particular one's communal life - the easier it becomes for one's imagination to fail.
Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!
[I]t's not the advertising, it's the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick of it, they don't like it.
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.
The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.
Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.
Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.
In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.
I'm The Only Entity On Earth, Other Than Rogue States, That Has Received An Apology From The White House
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness ... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.