John Podhoretz Quotes


I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington. John Podhoretz Atmosphere 519
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 138
The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will ever win with the overwhelmingly white and male coalition they have now. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 75
Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 71
Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else. John Podhoretz business 71
Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 59
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 58
In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 58
America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 50
While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 46
Is victory sweet because your side wins – or is it really because the other side loses? John Podhoretz Uncategorized 43
For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 41
Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 39
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 38
Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 38
Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country's course. This cuts against the grain, and that's why incumbents have a natural advantage. John Podhoretz Decision 37
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 36
All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 35
Let us now praise Barack Obama. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 35
Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 34
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 33
Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 32
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing – and now to something very close to parody. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 30
Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 29
America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 28
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. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 27
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 27
Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs. John Podhoretz Uncategorized 21

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