Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

I don't have a particular go-to political blog.

It's a very popular sport [in America] to talk about power struggle[s] in the Kremlin.

Asking presidential candidates whether they support or would change past foreign policy decisions is the most common line of questioning among members of the media. It's also the most pointless.

I'm no political pundit.

I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

Ramesh Ponnuru and others say Obama is a conventional liberal. But conventional liberals don't come out for the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Conventional liberals don't return the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. Conventional liberals don't block oil drilling in America while subsidizing oil drilling in Brazil.

Taking a principled and consistent stance over Iraq has attracted much criticism from our detractors and opponents.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

I'm a political analyst. I'm a political wonk. I read everything I can get my hands on as a contributor to the 'Weekly Standard.' Of course I read that. I read the 'National Review' on the right. I read 'Mother Jones' on the left. If I want a good laugh, I'll watch MSNBC or read 'The Nation.'

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right, and you turned out to be wrong.

Foreign policy questions bring trouble to senators and congressmen—rarely benefit.

Some critics complain that Gary Hart doesn't have any experience in foreign policy. But that's not true. Why, just yesterday he had breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

[George W.] Bush is the only force of evil in the world that liberals haven’t wanted to appease.

[George W. Bush is] … the most dangerous President in my lifetime.

Barack Hussein Obama Jr. and other enemies of America.

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.

George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.

It has become starkly apparent to me that we lack any sort of strategic foreign policy view, and when I say 'we,' I mean the country in general, but in particular, the Republican Party.

Reasonable people can differ on whether or not we should have gone into Iraq.

My readers know my views on politics and politicians because I make no secret of them in my comments for 'The New Yorker' and elsewhere.

In taking a very sober view of where this president is taking this country, the divisions, the catering to our adversaries, the undermining of national security interests, that I am absolutely a never-Trumper.

I've always watched the political shows.