“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
“The only reason the president insists on raising [tax] rates is because he knows it will destroy Republican unity, it will cause a complete fracture of the Republican majority in the house, it will hand him a Congress that he can then manipulate for the next two years at least because the Republicans will be neutered. ... This is entirely a political action, a way to get a surrender from the Republicans.” KnowsWayYearsTwoReasonHandsActionPoliticalNextHouseCausesPresidentRepublicanTaxesMajorityUnityRateCongressSurrenderTwo YearsManipulatePolitical ActionFractureRaising Taxes Author:Charles Krauthammer
“I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldPolicyMastersAffairWorld Affairs Author:Charles Krauthammer
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsIdeasMightLyingNightWinningGoalWorryGrewGrew UpCapableGoldNo IdeaAwakeMedalGold MedalsUraniumCrosby 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
“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.” KnowsLifeWritingHumansAgeLawScienceHuman BeingsSuccessfulFireSourcePoliticianResearchAdultsTechniqueTricksCellsBiologyDividesInstructionSheepNew LifeLaws Of NatureGeneticsOutlawDormantCloning Author:Charles Krauthammer
“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.” IfsKnowsMindLooksPersonsCountrySpeakPresidentInterestPartySawsAchieveBudgetsRemarksRise AbovePartisanshipPosingNational Interests Author:Charles Krauthammer
