John Podhoretz Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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.

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  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.

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  College, Government, Office

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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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  Country, War, Reality

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• The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

  John Podhoretz

  Firsts, Exit, Disappointing

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

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  Jobs, Creating, Growth

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

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  Cities, Atmosphere, Conservative

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• Let us now praise Barack Obama.

  John Podhoretz

  Praise, Barack

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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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• I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.

  John Podhoretz

  Running, Deputies, Shops

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

  John Podhoretz

  Accomplishment, Political, Victory

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• Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

  John Podhoretz

  Robots, Rich

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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.

  John Podhoretz

  Cutting, Class, Levels

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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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• 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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• 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.

  John Podhoretz

  Zero, Memories, Grief

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• When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.

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  Team, Price Tag, Kind

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• The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

  John Podhoretz

  Tactics, Conservative, Republican

  "Conservatives goes wild" by John Podhoretz, nypost.com. January 04, 2013.

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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.

  John Podhoretz

  America, Choices, Doubt

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