“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.” PeopleShouldYearsMindFirstsProblemSecretQualitySevenCeaseMathematicalMathematicianAssociatesSeven YearsAttics Author:Charles Krauthammer
“In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.” PeopleIfsYearsFirstsTwoChoicesIndividualNumbersRightsGayYears AgoOppositesPrejudiceUnionsGenderTraditionalDefinedDenialLogicalRequirementsEssaysArbitraryGay MarriageRestrictionGay RightsExclusionPolygamyAutonomousTraditional MarriageIndividual Choice Author:Charles Krauthammer
“For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.” PeopleEndsMatterCausesTermCommonOptimismCommon SenseObservationSwingsShort TermPeasantsIdeologicalPunBedrockPendulums Author:Charles Krauthammer
“In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.” PeopleAgeTodayModernMiddleCenturyCitizensOilTechnologicalSnakesMiddle Ages19th CenturyAilmentsCactusAntioxidants Author:Charles Krauthammer
“I'm not against international institutions that would try to tackle global warming. But the way to go, at least in the short run, is to go to nuclear power. It's amazing to me that people who are so alarmed about global warming are so reluctant to adopt the obvious short-term solution - the bridge until the day when we have affordable renewable energy - of nuclear power.” PeopleWayTryingRunningEnergyTermSolutionsInstitutionsInternationalObviousNuclearBridgesGlobal WarmingShort TermAffordableReluctantRenewable EnergyNuclear Power Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The medical malpractice system is totally out of control. Everybody in the system knows it. And it's not just of the outrageous judgments, it's not just the fact that some people get millions of dollars, others get nothing, and the one people who get rich are lawyered, it's just that it causes doctors to practice defensive medicine.” PeopleRichJudgmentMedicalGet Rich Author:Charles Krauthammer
“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.” PeopleNeedsEnemyViolenceWillingBunchTreatedWarriorNonsenseCowardReincarnationViciousComplacentFormidableActs Of ViolencePerpetuatingSenseless Violence Author:Charles Krauthammer
“I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.” PeopleWritingProcessEnjoyEnvy 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
“Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere from Thatcher's England to Deng's China, where just the partial abolition of socialism lifted more people out of poverty more rapidly than ever in human history.” PeopleHumansTwoPovertyForeverCapitalismEnglandDiedDecadesSocialismCommunismBuriedSuperiorityHuman HistoryDemonstrationAbolition Author:Charles Krauthammer
