272 Quotes by Charles Krauthammer

Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.

I don't think the West needs to apologize - or pay - for having invented the steam engine.

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.

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.

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.

Trump's relentless public humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was clearly intended to get him to resign.

There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am.

I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation's destiny.

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.