John Podhoretz Quotes - Page 2

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

  John Podhoretz

  Thinking, Scorpions, Eric

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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.

  John Podhoretz

  Confusion, Tunes, Records

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• Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.

  John Podhoretz

  War, Victory, Desire

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• I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

  John Podhoretz

  New York, Book, Self

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• In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.

  John Podhoretz

  Team, Use, Complicated

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• It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.

  John Podhoretz

  Jobs, Son, Unique

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• Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

  John Podhoretz

  Government, President, Executive Power

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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.

  John Podhoretz

  Jobs, People, Risk

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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.

  John Podhoretz

  Country, War, Reality

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• The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

  John Podhoretz

  Views, People, Intellectual

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• The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

  John Podhoretz

  War, Sides, Truth Is

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• The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will ever win with the overwhelmingly white and male coalition they have now.

  John Podhoretz

  Winning, White, Presidential

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• What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

  John Podhoretz

  Simple, United States, Failing

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• You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

  John Podhoretz

  Party, Successful, Israel

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• You know, you just know, that after the president goes out there and announces he wants to make community college free for all Americans - as though anything government does is 'free' - or is unilaterally and unconstitutionally legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants, he comes back to the offices, pulls out the presidential BlackBerry, and gleefully follows along as the Right goes completely ape over these wild policy decisions.

  John Podhoretz

  College, Government, Office

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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.

  John Podhoretz

  Israel, Two, Roots

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• Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

  John Podhoretz

  Sweet, Winning, Your Side

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

  John Podhoretz

  Bills, Internet, Computing

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

  John Podhoretz

  Beauty, Weakness, Needs

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

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• Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

  John Podhoretz

  Robots, Rich

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• Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

  John Podhoretz

  Accomplishment, Political, Victory

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• Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

  John Podhoretz

  Jobs, Creating, Growth

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• Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.

  John Podhoretz

  President, Vote, Newts

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• I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

  John Podhoretz

  People, Culture, Feels

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• America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.

  John Podhoretz

  America, President, May

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