“I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the atmosphere but is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.” KnowsBelieveTalkingVery GoodConvincedBelieverAtmosphereGlobal WarmingHatsAgnosticPumpsCo2 Author:Charles Krauthammer
“I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.” BelieveHumansReligiousMoralDeserveConceptionEmbryosPersonhoodAppendix Author:Charles Krauthammer
“I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.” ThinkingYearsBelieveMeanReasonProblemMightActionLastsDifficultEconomyEconomicModernCostMajorsHundredOppositesScientistClimateClimate ChangeReactionsAtmosphereCarbonPhysicistConsensusPumpsStaggeringCarbon DioxideFreemanUndoingGreat ScientistMajor Problems Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.” ThinkingBelievePolicyPaperDividesForeign PolicyAmerican Foreign Policy Author:Charles Krauthammer
“So a Holocaust-denying, virulently anti-Semitic, aspiring genocidist, on the verge of acquiring weapons of the apocalypse, believes that the end is not only near but nearer than the next American presidential election. (Pity the Democrats. They cannot catch a break.) This kind of man would have, to put it gently, less inhibition about starting Armageddon than a normal person.” MenBelieveKindPersonsEndsNextBreakNormalWeaponsElectionDemocratStartingPityPresidentialHolocaustApocalypseVergePresidential ElectionInhibitionsAmerican PresidentArmageddonAnti Semitic Author:Charles Krauthammer
“If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.” IfsBelieveStatesCareNextAlternativesHealth CareIf You BelievePublic Good Author:Charles Krauthammer
“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.” BelieveHappensSchoolGrowsRiskWeaponsAcquireAllowingSaddamHusseinPreemption Author:Charles Krauthammer
“I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.” ThinkingWayYearsBelieveMadeRunningI BelieveSidesHeardArgumentConservativeI Believe InConvincedSuperiorityBetter Ways Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Ted Cruz is a patriot. He believes in what he does. He's done marvels in mobilizing conservatives, mobilizing Americans concerned about the direction of the ever-expanding entitlement state under Obama, and particularly the threat it is to freedom. I disagree with his tactics, but I agree entirely with his objectives.” BelieveDoeStatesDoneConcernedAgreeThreatObjectivesDisagreePatriotExpandingTacticsEntitlementCruz Author:Charles Krauthammer
“There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveKindSoulReasonLeftVisionRaysLensesPsychiatryMystique Author:Charles Krauthammer
