Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.
Charles KrauthammerThere is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
Charles KrauthammerUnder our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
Charles KrauthammerThe liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.
Charles KrauthammerThere are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We don't have parliamentary opposition parties with a shadow prime minister and shadow cabinets. Every four years, the opposition reinvents itself.
Charles Krauthammer