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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.
— Charles Krauthammer
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.
— Charles Krauthammer
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.
— Charles Krauthammer
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
— Charles Krauthammer
If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong
on other worlds. — Charles Krauthammer
on other worlds. — Charles Krauthammer
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.
— Charles Krauthammer
Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.
— Charles Krauthammer
Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.
— Charles Krauthammer
In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.
— Charles Krauthammer
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.
— Charles Krauthammer
I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.
— Charles Krauthammer
In modern times we suffer not for our sins - sin having been abolished - but for ideology.
— Charles Krauthammer
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
— Charles Krauthammer
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.
— Charles Krauthammer
Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.
— Charles Krauthammer
The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.
— Charles Krauthammer
Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up
— Charles Krauthammer
We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
— Charles Krauthammer
Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!
— Charles Krauthammer
Obsession with self is the motif of our time.
— Charles Krauthammer
Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.
— Charles Krauthammer
[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.
— Charles Krauthammer
I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.
— Charles Krauthammer
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
— Charles Krauthammer
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.
— Charles Krauthammer
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.
— Charles Krauthammer
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.
— Charles Krauthammer
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
— Charles Krauthammer
Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.
— Charles Krauthammer
The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.
— Charles Krauthammer
I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.
— Charles Krauthammer
When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.
— Charles Krauthammer
If you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it.
— Charles Krauthammer
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.
— Charles Krauthammer
I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.
— Charles Krauthammer
History is not just cruel. It is witty.
— Charles Krauthammer
A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.
— Charles Krauthammer
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.
— Charles Krauthammer
The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.
— Charles Krauthammer
There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.
— Charles Krauthammer
The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.
— Charles Krauthammer
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.
— Charles Krauthammer
The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.
— Charles Krauthammer
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.
— Charles Krauthammer
Middleness is the very enemy of the bold.
— Charles Krauthammer
Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.
— Charles Krauthammer
Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.
— Charles Krauthammer
Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.
— Charles Krauthammer
The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.
— Charles Krauthammer
refuses to consider
— Charles Krauthammer
In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.
— Charles Krauthammer
I'm The Only Entity On Earth, Other Than Rogue States, That Has Received An Apology From The White House
— Charles Krauthammer
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness ... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
— Charles Krauthammer
Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.
— Charles Krauthammer
If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House?
— Charles Krauthammer
A one-hour work-week ... would minimize the damage that Congress can do.
— Charles Krauthammer
I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly.
— Mary Tyler Moore
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.
— Charles Krauthammer
When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.
— Charles Krauthammer
Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.
— Charles Krauthammer
Why in the age of feminism do we still use the phrase "women and children"?
— Charles Krauthammer
I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.
— Charles Krauthammer