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When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Born
#Easy
#New
#Power
#Reality
The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Anger
#Day
#Election
#Good
#Internet
Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Beyond
#Place
#Purpose
#Thinking
#War
Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Civilization
#Rise Above
#Rise
#Violence
There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Believe
#Fear
#God
#I Am
#Said
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Conservative
#Good
#Ideas
#Old
#Theme
I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Fan
#Former
#Now
#Red Sox
#Red
The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Community
#Foreign Policy
#Lies
#Policy
I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation's destiny.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Destiny
#Grateful
#Guide
#I Am
#Nation
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Boring
#Clock
#Football
#Game
#Slow
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
#Grow
#Risks
#School
#Time
I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do, I start to fix it, and I never get past the first sentence.
- Charles Krauthammer
#First
#Never
#Page
#Past
#Start
There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Country
#Future
#Nothing
#Today
#Will
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Enemy
#Need
#Nonsense
#People
#Violence
I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life - full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Great
#Life
#Living
#Wonderful
#Worth
The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Disappointment
#Expectations
#Joy
#Where
I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Doing
#Gold
#Lie
#People
#Win
You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Life
#Say
#Think
#Whole
#Your
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Character
#Political
#Politics
#Trust
Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Always
#Choice
#Conspiracy
#Incompetence
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
- Charles Krauthammer
#Believe
#Debate
#I Believe That
#Truth
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