“Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.” MoralPrinciplesImpossibleWorstPolicyExtremesGuidesHypocrisyForeign PolicyMoral PrinciplesNaivete Author:Charles Krauthammer
“So far as Im concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.” PresidentWorstPolicyOfficeConcernedOkayPresident Nixon Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.” Has BeensPolicyDisasterBroadsForeign PolicyStrokes 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
“I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldPolicyMastersAffairWorld Affairs Author:Charles Krauthammer
“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.” RealityJobsEasyBornPartyPolicyPressesOppositionRhetoricConsensusIrresistible Author:Charles Krauthammer
“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.” DifferentCountryLyingInterestCommunityNaturalFictionPolicyEndureInternationalForeign PolicyInherentGeographyInternational CommunityDifferent Countries Author:Charles Krauthammer
