Charles Krauthammer who born in New York, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist and commentator.
His weekly column appears in the The Washington Post and is syndicated in more than 400 newspapers and media outlets. Krauthammer is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and The New Republic. Famous Charles Krauthammer quotes about life, politics, parties and house will continue to have an impact on the world and enrich your perspective.
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Famous Charles Krauthammer Quotes
Fight for what you know to be right. Don’t give up. Charles Krauthammer
Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible. Charles Krauthammer
The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment Charles Krauthammer
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
I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission. Charles Krauthammer
The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment. Charles Krauthammer
Sometimes it’s easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with. Charles Krauthammer
Affluent enviros are all for wind farms, until one is proposed that might mar the serenity of a sail from the crew necked precincts near Nantucket Sound. Then it’s clean energy for thee, not for me. Charles Krauthammer
I don’t mind going into a liberal lion’s den. That’s where you test yourself. Charles Krauthammer
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn’t lend itself to histrionics. You take in a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. Charles Krauthammer
You’re betraying your whole life if you don’t say what you think and you don’t say it honestly and bluntly. Charles Krauthammer
The new Detroit churning out Schumer mobiles will make the steel mills of the Soviet Union look the model of efficiency. Charles Krauthammer
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant conflict and war. Charles Krauthammer
I don’t really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart. Charles Krauthammer
I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation’s destiny. Charles Krauthammer
Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism. Charles Krauthammer
The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism. 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. Charles Krauthammer
I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News? The answer is, I was young once. End of answer. Charles Krauthammer
Tuesday’s victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it. Author: Charles Krauthammer
Middleness is the very enemy of the bold. Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krathammer wrote an op ed which argues that U.S. President Donald Trump is not a Republican or a Democrat, but a pragmatist
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn’t lend itself to histrionics. You take in a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. Charles Krauthammer
When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back Charles Krauthammer
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking. Charles Krauthammer
A lot of people have said a lot of things about Krauthammer over the years. Trump, while campaigning for president, called him a jerk. But others have spoken highly of him.
Every civilization is founded on the sins every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it. Charles Krauthammer
A former editorial page editor for The Washington Post once called his work independent and hard to peg politically. And David Brooks of The New York Times called him the most important conservative columnist right now.
Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of brilliant doctors! Charles Krauthammer
Earlier this month there was a strong show of support for Krauthammer, including an editorial from The Washington Post titled Fridays without Charles in which its editorial board praised his work. The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board also wrote an appreciation of Krauthammer.
When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back. Charles Krauthammer
The columnist’s letter also drew many acknowledgments on social media from conservative figures like columnist Ben Shapiro, Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. John McCain.
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. Charles Krauthammer
Those on the left also shared equal amounts of praise for him.
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off. Charles Krauthammer
The news resonated throughout the news industry.
Obsession with self is the motif of our time. Charles Krauthammer
Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. Charles Krauthammer
Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are 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.
I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That’s the day I showed up for work at The New Republic magazine. Charles Krauthammer
Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.
If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life. Charles Krauthammer
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today’s pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it’s not easeful for me. Charles Krauthammer
The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.
For every moment of triumph, there is an unequal and opposite feeling of despair. Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston. Great photo. Now think of Liston. Do the pleasure/pain calculus. Charles Krauthammer
You’ve got to learn the texts, you have to know Talmud, you have to be able to read Rashi, you have to know what’s there. My father said, I can’t make you religious. I can’t make sure that you’ll be religious, but I am going to make sure that you’re not ignorant.
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. Charles Krauthammer
The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment. Charles Krauthammer
This is an epic fail. This is historic. This is seven years of arguing gone down the drain. And I think we’re at the end of the road. Charles Krauthammer
There’s a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality. Charles Krauthammer
The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life. 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. Charles Krauthammer
As most who have engaged in competitive sports know, there’s nothing to match the amplitude of emotion brought by losing. Charles Krauthammer
Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up. Charles Krauthammer
There’s a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality. Charles Krauthammer
Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better. 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. Charles Krauthammer
Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible. Charles Krauthammer
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
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn’t lend itself to histrionics. You take in a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. Charles Krauthammer
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
The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism. 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? Charles Krauthammer
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
I think if you’re going to master policy, especially world affairs, you’ve got to know history. Charles Krauthammer
The international community lies at the center of Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There’s no natural, inherent, or enduring international community. Charles Krauthammer
I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. Charles Krauthammer
