Charles Krauthammer Quotes

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic – purely symbolic – move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

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.

Identity politics is the mother’s milk of the Democratic Left.

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

A one-hour work-week…would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.