Charles Krauthammer Quotes - Page 6

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• Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying, 'To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,' his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Way Forward, Mutual Interest, President

  "U.S. has history of respecting Muslims". The St. Augustine Record Article, staugustine.com. February 03, 2009.

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• If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Years, Other Worlds, Nasa

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• Look, I don't mind if the President sends a budget which he knows is not going to achieve anything. But when he prefaces his remarks as we just saw by saying we have to put politics aside, posing again as the one person in the country who rises above partisanship and party, speaks for the national interest, it's really grating.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Country, Party, Mind

  "Krauthammer: Obama budget 'not a real document'", www.foxnews.com. February 2, 2015.

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• An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Real, Oil, Promise

  "Obama's oil flimflam". jewishworldreview.com. March 15, 2012.

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• When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Expectations, American History, Disaster

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• The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Thinking, Paper

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• Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Years, People, Mind

  "An Age-old Puzzle, Solved Modestly". articles.chicagotribune.com. July 5, 1993.

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• Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Tuesday, Giving, Victory

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• Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Kind, Stage

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• In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Reality, Kyoto Protocol, Environmental

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• What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature. We now know that an adult mammalian cell can fire up all the dormant genetic instructions that shut down as it divides and specializes and ages, and thus can become a source of new life. You can outlaw technique; you cannot repeal biology.
  Writing after Wilmut's successful cloning of the sheep, Dolly, that research on the cloning of human beings cannot be suppressed.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Life, Writing, Science

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• If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her.

  Charles Krauthammer

  President, Nominations, United States

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2005.

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• A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Years, Crow, Three

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• Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But they require commitment and determination. In other words, will. You can't just make one speech declaring war, then disappear and go fundraising.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Determination, War, Commitment

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• This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday, they seized the presidential palace. On Thursday, they forced the president to resign.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Government, Tuesday, Presidential

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• I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, School, Risk

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• The Democratic line is that the Republican House does nothing but block and oppose. In fact, it has passed hundreds of bills only to have them die upon reaching the desk of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He has rendered the Senate inert by simply ensuring that any bill that might present a politically difficult vote for his Democratic colleagues never even comes to the floor.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Block, Majority Leader, House

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• In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Exception To The Rule, Together, Genius

  "An Age-old Puzzle, Solved Modestly". articles.chicagotribune.com. July 05, 1993.

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• Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Worry, President, Cabinets

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• Somebody actually said that I'm the only entity on earth, other than rogue states, that has received an apology from the White House.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Apology, White, House

  "Krauthammer: "I'm The Only Entity On Earth, Other Than Rogue States, That Has Received An Apology From The White House"", www.realclearpolitics.com. August 1, 2012.

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• Pass legislation. When Obama signs, you've shown seriousness and the ability to govern. When he vetoes, you've clarified the differences between party philosophies and prepared the ground for 2016.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Philosophy, Party, Differences

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• If the president signs any of it, good. If he vetoes, it will be clarifying. Who then will be the party of no? The vetoed legislation would become the framework for a 2016 GOP platform. Let the debate begin.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Party, President, Notable

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• Obama has committed the U.S. to war on the Islamic State. To then allow within a month an allied enclave to be overrun - and perhaps annihilated - would be a major blow.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Islamic, Blow

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• Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)

  Charles Krauthammer

  Party, America, Irrelevance

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• I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Writing, People, Envy

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