John Podhoretz Quotes

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John Podhoretz

Profession : Writer

Birth : April 18, 1961

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

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All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

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Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

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I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

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What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

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The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.

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The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.

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Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

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Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

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Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

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Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.

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I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

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Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

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The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

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Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

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She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

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The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

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For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

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Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

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