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Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.
— 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
As most who have engaged in competitive sports know, there's nothing to match the amplitude of emotion brought by losing.
— Charles Krauthammer
The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a 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
Trump's behavior is deeply disturbing but hardly surprising. His mercurial nature is not the product of a post-inaugural adder sting at Mar-a-Lago. It's been there all along. And the American electorate chose him nonetheless.
— Charles Krauthammer
When the Cleveland Cavaliers lost the 2015 NBA Finals to Golden State, LeBron James sat motionless in the locker room, staring straight ahead, still wearing his game jersey, for 45 minutes after the final buzzer. Here was a guy immensely wealthy, widely admired, at the peak of his powers - yet stricken, inconsolable.
— 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
If you control one house of Congress, you cannot abolish something like Obamacare, no matter how much pressure you apply.
— Charles Krauthammer
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
— Charles Krauthammer
The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.
— Charles Krauthammer
A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.
— Charles Krauthammer
Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!
— Charles Krauthammer
Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.
— Charles Krauthammer
Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch.
— 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
If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods, and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up, I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.'
— Charles Krauthammer
The normalization of Trump is one indicator that there may be less to the populist insurrection than imagined.
— Charles Krauthammer
Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
— Charles Krauthammer
There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am.
— Charles Krauthammer
Trump's relentless public humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was clearly intended to get him to resign.
— 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
Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.
— Charles Krauthammer
I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.
— Charles Krauthammer
In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.
— Charles Krauthammer
There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that.
— 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
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
Never leave a crossword unfinished.
— Charles Krauthammer
I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do, I start to fix it, and I never get past the first sentence.
— Charles Krauthammer
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
In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.
— Charles Krauthammer
In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.
— Charles Krauthammer
Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.
— Charles Krauthammer
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
— Charles Krauthammer
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
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.
— Charles Krauthammer
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
— Charles Krauthammer
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.
— 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
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
Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.
— Charles Krauthammer
The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.
— Charles Krauthammer
Fight for what you know to be right. Don't give up.
— Charles Krauthammer
In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It's always the weapon and never the shooter.
— Charles Krauthammer
I don't think the West needs to apologize - or pay - for having invented the steam engine.
— Charles Krauthammer
Trump is a systemic stress test.
— Charles Krauthammer
Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the war on terror. Obama won't use the word. He's made war on the war on terror.
— Charles Krauthammer
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
Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the 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.
— Charles Krauthammer
Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.
— Charles Krauthammer
The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of any inaugural address I think since the Second World War.
— Charles Krauthammer
Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.
— 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.
— Charles Krauthammer
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
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.
— Charles Krauthammer
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.
— Charles Krauthammer
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
— Charles Krauthammer
I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.
— Charles Krauthammer
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
— Charles Krauthammer
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