Charles Krauthammer Quotes

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Charles Krauthammer

Profession : Journalist

Birth : March 13, 1950

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 one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme.

Charles Krauthammer

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

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

I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.

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Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch.

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I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation's destiny.

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To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something - to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity.

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If you control one house of Congress, you cannot abolish something like Obamacare, no matter how much pressure you apply.

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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

Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.

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I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

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I don't think the West needs to apologize - or pay - for having invented the steam engine.

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Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.

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I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

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The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

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I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.

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I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

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Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the war on terror. Obama won't use the word. He's made war on the war on terror.

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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