“Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public - and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history.” WorldSaidSeriousCrisisCongressChanging The WorldDesperatePotMandates Author:Charles Krauthammer
“An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live.” WorldRealPresidentPromiseCrisisOilAbundanceFuelGasReal WorldFossilsTanksFossil FuelStaggeringSeaweedKeystonesAlgae Author:Charles Krauthammer
“In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.” WorldStatesRealityUnitedUnited StatesHugeResourcesThirdsEnvironmentalProtectionTransfersThird WorldGuiseEnvironmental ProtectionKyotoKyoto Protocol Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering.” WorldWellsDifferentNationsInterestExampleCostOrganizationInstitutionsRemainsClimateClimate ChangeInternationalFluStaggeringGet WellHypotheticalSwinePolioWorld HealthConfluenceWorld Health OrganizationSwine Flu Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.” WorldWarEuropeUnionsWar Of The WorldsSovietDominantSoviet UnionDefaultSecond World War 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
“Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying, 'To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,' his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic.” WorldWayPresidentInterestBarackAddressesMutualNew WaysKinderMutual RespectInauguralApologeticMuslim WorldInaugural AddressWay ForwardMutual Interest 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
“If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.” IfsWorldYearsScrewsOther WorldsNasaSuccessors Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to Obama's proudly transformational New Foundation agenda. Their logic is impeccable: Only the most blinkered intellectual could be attempting to introduce social democracy to America precisely when the world's foremost exemplar of that model - Europe - is in chaotic meltdown.” WorldDoeAmericaPoliticalSocialDemocracyIntellectualModelsEuropeLogicFoundationFranceOppositionAgendasIntroducingAttemptingGreecePeasantsChaoticImpeccableSocial DemocracyMeltdowns Author:Charles Krauthammer
“To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would only have done it with a president who has shown from the very beginning that [President Obama] is living in a fantasy world...They imagine the world as a new interconnected world where climate change is the biggest threat and they are shocked that the Russians actually are interested in territory.” WorldDonePresidentStepsFantasyImagineHugeThreatClimateClimate ChangeTerritoryPresident ObamaShockedPutinUkraineInterconnectedFantasy WorldsCrimeaInterconnected World Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.” WorldPoliticsSpeakPoliticianSpeak The TruthPlaces In The World Author:Charles Krauthammer
