“Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.” WayJobsSpiritualPresidentWeaknessInsultingElectorateAccusingSinfulness Author:John Podhoretz
“America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.” MayAmericaPresidentConditions Author:John Podhoretz
“Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.” PresidentVoteNewts Author:John Podhoretz
“Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.” GovernmentPresidentRationalSpotsVulnerableExecutivesSenateModeratesAppointmentsMisuseElectorateRecessExecutive Power Author:John Podhoretz
“Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.” PresidentPercentVoteElectionMinoritiesAmerican History Author:John Podhoretz
“Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.” WorldWayAmericaChoicesLeftPresidentDoubtPolicyImportanceIncludingAwfulBordersNo DoubtForeign PolicyParamount Author:John Podhoretz
“This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.” WayPresidentGoes OnPresidentialThronesMudRise AboveSpearsFlingFraySurrogates Author:John Podhoretz
“You know, you just know, that after the president goes out there and announces he wants to make community college free for all Americans - as though anything government does is 'free' - or is unilaterally and unconstitutionally legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants, he comes back to the offices, pulls out the presidential BlackBerry, and gleefully follows along as the Right goes completely ape over these wild policy decisions.” KnowsWantDoeGovernmentPresidentCommunityDecisionMillionsPolicyCollegeOfficePresidentialImmigrantsApesNotableBlackberriesCommunity CollegeUndocumented Immigrants Author:John Podhoretz
