Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)
Charles KrauthammerIf you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it.
Charles KrauthammerIf we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.
Charles KrauthammerPreemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.
Charles Krauthammer