“I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.” ThinkingHeartDoeCareFiguresLetting GoI CarePublic Figures Author:Charles Krauthammer
“As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy - a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence.” ThinkingTodayRomanceUniverseVoiceSpaceSilenceLonelyProfoundSpeciesExcitementMelancholyExplorationBetraySpace ExplorationCounterparts 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
“I think the first thing is to recognize a mistake that Obama made. And others have made in thinking that you can revolutionize a system that's unbelievably complex and interlinked, one-sixth of the economy. That was a mistake because whenever you change one thing, it changes 80 other things, and now if you're changing everything at once, you have no idea what the outcome is going to be and you get all of these unintended side effects.” ThinkingMistakeEconomy 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 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
“I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.” ThinkingCountryPagesTraditionTownsPostsBalancedConsideringEditorials Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.” IfsThinkingTwoBrainConsciousnessMysteryHavensMinesPopsMysteriousShootingNeurons 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
“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
“To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.” ThinkingLawEvilPoliticsStupidFundamentalsAmerican PoliticsStupid Liberal Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon - my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?” ThinkingJobsSecurityKingdomsNutsPreparingVirginsAirportsPackagesJohnsonJunkKingdom ComeGoonsAirport Security Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normal—indeed, deeply human—to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a vision—a creature—of the purest sweetness?” ThinkingWorldShouldHumansSufferingVisionDogProduceCreaturesNormalMovedProtestSweetnessMournEccentricObsceneHuman SufferingPerfectly Normal Author:Charles Krauthammer
