Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.
Charles KrauthammerTuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.
Charles KrauthammerIf you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it.
Charles KrauthammerPreemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.
Charles KrauthammerThird parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)
Charles KrauthammerI think the first thing is to recognize a mistake that Obama made. And others have made in thinking that you can revolutionize a system that's unbelievably complex and interlinked, one-sixth of the economy. That was a mistake because whenever you change one thing, it changes 80 other things, and now if you're changing everything at once, you have no idea what the outcome is going to be and you get all of these unintended side effects.
Charles Krauthammer