I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking. Charles Krauthammer More Quotes by Charles Krauthammer More Quotes From Charles Krauthammer The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation. Charles Krauthammer preparationweaponsgun Middleness is the very enemy of the bold. Charles Krauthammer enemy Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected. Charles Krauthammer congressshouldlaw 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. Charles Krauthammer partyjobsreality To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity. Charles Krauthammer creditpowerfulamerica For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction. Charles Krauthammer riskgeniusart Obama's Democrats have become the part of no. Real cuts to federal budget? No. Entitlement reform? No. Tax reform? No. Breaking the corrupt and fiscally unsustainable symbiosis between public-sector unions and state governments? Hell no. Charles Krauthammer cuttinggovernmentreal Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians. Charles Krauthammer moralisraelwar The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help. Charles Krauthammer povertycommunitywar I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history. Charles Krauthammer affairworldthinking Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism. Charles Krauthammer fairnessessence 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. Charles Krauthammer ukraineclimatepresident I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix. Charles Krauthammer moralreligiousbelieve 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. Charles Krauthammer economymistakethinking 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. Charles Krauthammer winningnightlying I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission. Charles Krauthammer remissionpsychiatrist 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. Charles Krauthammer medicaljudgmentpeople 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. Charles Krauthammer snakesoilpeople History is not just cruel. It is witty. Charles Krauthammer witty The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism. Charles Krauthammer modernlunchessence
