“To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity.” AmericaSocialPowerfulDemocraticCreditStreamsIntroducing Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)” AmericaPartyThirdsExtremesCampaignsTendenciesPresidentialAmerican PoliticsThird PartiesPresidential CampaignIrrelevance Author:Charles Krauthammer
“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.” YearsTwoCountryCharacterAmericaPoliticalPoliticsLostTrustWallIndustryPoliticianWittyTwo YearsDistrustAmerican PoliticsAssassinationPuzzledLove And TrustElection YearsElected LeadersCharacter AssassinationLost Trust Author:Charles Krauthammer
“A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.” WantHomeAmericaUsedGuyOughtArmyVersionsHuntsBad GuysDronesHoveringSomalia Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.” ThinkingShouldAmericaCommunityViewsFictionVisionInternationalArrogantInternational CommunityFuzzyInternationalism Author:Charles Krauthammer
“History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.” AmericaDesireNationsNeededAdvantageBlessedUnityAccidentsRacistAssetsDiverseMulticulturalismPricelessMindlessMultiracialCohesion Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to Obama's proudly transformational New Foundation agenda. Their logic is impeccable: Only the most blinkered intellectual could be attempting to introduce social democracy to America precisely when the world's foremost exemplar of that model - Europe - is in chaotic meltdown.” WorldDoeAmericaPoliticalSocialDemocracyIntellectualModelsEuropeLogicFoundationFranceOppositionAgendasIntroducingAttemptingGreecePeasantsChaoticImpeccableSocial DemocracyMeltdowns Author:Charles Krauthammer
“If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.” IfsWayAmericaSocialFairsDemocraticSocial ChangeWarranty Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which arms, trains, and advises them. Their slogan - 'God is great. Death to America. Death to Israel' - could have been written in Persian.” Has BeensAmericaReligiousWrittenLandArmsMajorityTrainIsraelLocalsAgentsIranCould Have BeenAdviseSlogansNotableGrievancePersianGod Is Great Author:Charles Krauthammer
