272 Quotes by Charles Krauthammer

Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We don’t have parliamentary opposition parties with a shadow prime minister and shadow cabinets. Every four years, the opposition reinvents itself.

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.

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.