John Podhoretz Quotes - Page 3

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• This, of course, has no chance of passing. But then Tuesday night'€™s State of the Union address could be the first one in history deliberately designed solely to generate a Pavlovian rage response in members of the opposing party.

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  Party, Night, Tuesday

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• If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.

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  Cutting, Views, Political

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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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  Hero, People, Evil

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• This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

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  Presidential, Thrones, Goes On

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• In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

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  Black, Victim, Homicide

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• The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

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  Government, Would Be, Debt

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• You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

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  Israel, Two, Roots

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• Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.

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  Cutting, Obamacare, Pro Life

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• As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to 'The American' magazine.

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  Religious, Giving, Church

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• As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

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  Ideas, Matter, Groups

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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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  America, Cities, Bills

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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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  Political, Guilty, Rhetoric

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• The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

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  Jobs, Levels, Entry

  "Stopping Hillary". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 9, 2006.

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• Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

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  Kind, Restless, Newts

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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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  Thinking, Scorpions, Eric

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• For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

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  Thinking, Example, Republican

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

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  Song, Sirens, Schism

  "Stopping Hillary". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 9, 2006.

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• By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

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  Cutting, Class, Levels

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• Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.

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  Zero, Memories, Grief

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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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  Movie, Dark, Keys

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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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  Animal, Two, Comedian

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• Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.

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  Party, Cocktails, Cocktail Parties

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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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  Character, Robots, Fiction

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• 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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  America, Choices, Doubt

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• Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.

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  Jobs, People, Risk

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