272 Quotes by Charles Krauthammer

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

I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials – considering it’s a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition – I think it’s the best editorial page around. It’s quite balanced.

In modern times we suffer not for our sins – sin having been abolished – but for ideology.

I’m The Only Entity On Earth, Other Than Rogue States, That Has Received An Apology From The White House.

The next time you find yourself in the midst of some national hysteria with sensible people losing their heads, with legislatures in panic and with the media buying it all and amplifying it with a kind of megaphone effect, remember this: Remember that a people – even the most sensible people – can all lose their heads at once.

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

Who else but that oracle of American liberalism, the New York Times, could run the puzzled headline: “Crime Keeps On Falling, but Prisons Keep On Filling.” But? How about this wild theory: If you lock up the criminals, crime declines.

Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn’t have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he’s seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.

By what logical principle should the relief of death be granted only the terminally ill? Such a restriction is itself perverse. After all, the terminally ill face only a brief period of suffering. The chronically ill, or the healthy but bereft – they face a lifetime of agony. Why deny them the relief of a humane exit?