John Podhoretz Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Firsts, Exit, Disappointing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.

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  Country, Moving, Years

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• Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.

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  Years, Inheritance, Delight

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• Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

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  People, May, Desperate

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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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• 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.

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  Tactics, Conservative, Republican

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

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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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• 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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• 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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  Promise, Campaigns, Levels

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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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