Charles Krauthammer Quotes

If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.

If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her.

With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy.

Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.

Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)

The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.

When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

History is not just cruel. It is witty.

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.

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.

If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.

The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.