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“The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.”

Charles Krauthammer

2010s, 2013, Obamacare laid bare (2013)

“The UN is worse than disaster. The UN creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful UN Human Rights Council. It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty, and anti-Semitic among other things. The world would be better off in its absence.”

Charles Krauthammer

Interview with Der Spiegel http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-656501.html published on October 26, 2009. <br class="br">2000s, 2009

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

Charles Krauthammer

Column, March 13, 2009, &quot;Obama&#x27;s &#x27;Science&#x27; Fiction&quot; http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer031309.php3 at jewishworldreview.com. <br class="br">2000s, 2009

“Obama’s NASA budget perfectly captures the difference between Kennedy's liberalism and Obama's. Kennedy's was an expansive, bold, outward-looking summons, Obama's is a constricted inward-looking call to retreat. Fifty years ago, Kennedy opened the New Frontier. Obama has just shut it.”

Charles Krauthammer

Column, February 12, 2010, &quot;Closing the New Frontier&quot; http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer021210.php3#.U4HLMMJOWUl at jewishworldreview.com. <br class="br">2010s, 2010

“Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.”

Charles Krauthammer

2010s, 2010, One year out: Obama's fall (2010)

“In these most recent 20 years -- the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world -- America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved -- and resulted in -- the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq. The two Balkan interventions -- as well as the failed 1992-93 Somalia intervention to feed starving African Muslims (43 Americans were killed) -- were humanitarian exercises of the highest order, there being no significant U. S. strategic interest at stake. In these 20 years, this nation has done more for suffering and oppressed Muslims than any nation, Muslim or non-Muslim, anywhere on Earth. Why are we apologizing?”

Charles Krauthammer

Column, January 30, 2009, &quot;Outreach, Yes. Apology, No: We’ve Never Been Islam’s Enemy&quot; http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer013009.php3 at jewishworldreview.com. <br class="br">2000s, 2009

“The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.”

Charles Krauthammer

2010s, 2010, The joys of losing (2010)

“In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today’s shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.”

Charles Krauthammer

&quot;The Return of the Primitive&quot; http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,984031,00.html, TIME magazine (29 January 1996) <br class="br">1990s, 1996

“Optimism' is the perfect way to trivialize everything that Reagan was or did. […] Optimism? Every other person on the No. 6 bus is an optimist. What distinguished Reagan was what he did and said. Reagan was optimistic about America amid the cynicism and general retreat of the post-Vietnam era because he believed unfashionably that America was both great and good.”

Charles Krauthammer

2000s, 2004, Reagan Was More Than Just An Optimist (2004)

“From the very beginning, President Obama has relentlessly tried to play down and deny the nature of the terrorist threat we continue to face. […] Hence, Guantanamo will close, CIA interrogators will face a special prosecutor, and Khalid Sheik Mohammed will bask in a civilian trial in New York — a trifecta of political correctness and image management. And just to make sure even the dimmest understand, Obama banishes the term "war on terror." […] Obama may have declared the war over. Unfortunately, al-Qaeda has not. Which gives new meaning to the term "asymmetric warfare."”

Charles Krauthammer

Column, January 1, 2010, &quot;Obama’s dangerous denial&quot; http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer010110.php3#.U35UucJOWUk at jewishworldreview.com. <br class="br">2010s, 2010

“There's something in the Western psyche, especially the Western liberal, pluralistic psyche, that finds it impossible to believe that radical ideologues mean what they say. We didn't believe communists or fascists, and in the early days we found it impossible to believe the Khomeinists. Yet these are people who do believe what they say. Attempts to moderate their behavior invariably fail; these are exercises in our heads. We need a policy of strong opposition to the fundamentalists and of strong support for those Muslims who stand up to them.”

Charles Krauthammer

Interview with Charles Krauthammer: America's "Great Success Story", in Middle East Quarterly (December 1994)
1990s, 1994

“Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.”

Charles Krauthammer

Column, May 1, 2009, &quot;Torture? No. Except …&quot; http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer050109.php3 at jewishworldreview.com. <br class="br">2000s, 2009

“I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.”

Charles Krauthammer

1990s, 1999, Nixon on the Couch (1999)

“We grow justly weary of our politics. But we must remember this: Politics – in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations – is sovereign in human affairs. Everything ultimately rests upon it. Fairly or not, politics is the driver of history.”

Charles Krauthammer

2010s, 2011, Are we alone in the universe? (2011)

“The way I see it, dogs had this big meeting, oh, maybe 20,000 years ago. A huge meeting — an international convention with delegates from everywhere. And that's when they decided that humans were the up-and-coming species and dogs were going to throw their lot in with them. The decision was obviously not unanimous. The wolves and dingoes walked out in protest.”

Charles Krauthammer

&quot;Of Dogs and Men&quot;, TIME magazine (10 June 2003) http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,457373,00.html <br class="br">2000s, 2003

“Reading conventional notions of class struggle and anti-colonialism into bin Laden, the Taliban, and radical Islam is not just solipsistic. It is nonsense. If poverty and destitution, colonialism and capitalism are animating radical Islam, explain this: In March, the Taliban went to the Afghan desert where stood great monuments of human culture, two massive Buddhas carved out of a cliff. At first, Taliban soldiers tried artillery. The 1,500-year-old masterpieces proved too hardy. The Taliban had to resort to dynamite. They blew the statues to bits, then slaughtered 100 cows in atonement-for having taken so long to finish the job. Buddhism is hardly a representative of the West. It is hardly a cause of poverty and destitution. It is hardly a symbol of colonialism. No. The statues represented two things: an alternative faith and a great work of civilization. To the Taliban, the presence of both was intolerable.”

Charles Krauthammer

2000s, 2001, The Enemy is not Islam. It is Nihilism (2001)

“The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.”

Charles Krauthammer

Introduction
2010s, 2013, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics (2013)

“In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don’t.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.”

Charles Krauthammer

1990s, 1993, Eureka! A Modest Genius (1993)