Top 40 Charles Krauthammer Quotes

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

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

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.

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.

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.

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

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

Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

Never leave a crossword unfinished.

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

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.

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.

I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, ‘How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?’ The answer is, ‘I was young once.’ End of answer.

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it’s not easeful for me.

Whenever you’re faced with an explanation of what’s going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

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.

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.

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

I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.

The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.

Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.

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.

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.

As most who have engaged in competitive sports know, there’s nothing to match the amplitude of emotion brought by losing.

So far as I’m concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.

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.

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

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.

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.

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.

Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors – brilliant!

Fight for what you know to be right. Don’t give up.

Every civilization is founded on sins – every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

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

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.

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.