John Podhoretz quotes - page 3

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. (John Podhoretz)
Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions. View quote
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What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail. View quote
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Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost. View quote
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Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. View quote
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Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will. View quote
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The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power. View quote
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As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea. View quote
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I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington. View quote
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The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job. View quote
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I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion. (John Podhoretz)
I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred. View quote
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. View quote
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America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president. View quote
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I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop. View quote
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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going. View quote
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Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs. View quote
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If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut. View quote
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When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model. View quote
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Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers. View quote
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Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment. (John Podhoretz)
Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket. View quote
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Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both. View quote
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It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job. View quote
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I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do. View quote
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