Krauthammer's Quotes

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

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

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster. — 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 joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment. — Charles Krauthammer

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality. — Charles Krauthammer

A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow. — Charles Krauthammer

If you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it. — Charles Krauthammer

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back. — Charles Krauthammer

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left. — 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

Why in the age of feminism do we still use the phrase "women and children"? — Charles Krauthammer

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution. — 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

I'm The Only Entity On Earth, Other Than Rogue States, That Has Received An Apology From The White House — 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

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House? — Charles Krauthammer

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism. — 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

Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better. — Charles Krauthammer

Middleness is the very enemy of the bold. — 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

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

I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission. — Charles Krauthammer

Every week 10,000 tons of food, medicine, and other humanitarian supplies are sent by Israel to Gaza. — 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

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect. — 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

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

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. — Charles Krauthammer

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing. — Charles Krauthammer

History is not just cruel. It is witty. — 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

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