Charles Krauthammer Quotes

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

All politics is a combination of rhetoric and reality.

[Ideological] Purity is fine but it doesn’t win elections and is not a governing strategy. Compromise is required.

In every sort of politics, in history, it has its own problems, its leaders, its own opposition.

Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support.

My party is me.

The Republicans are the party that says that government doen't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

The biggest problem for the Republican Party has never been its primary calendar, its campaign tactics, or a lack of trainings. The party's biggest problem is what it believes, what it says, and how it governs.

Elections are about choices.

I think it's time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going to take back control.'

American politics is always an open competition.

Politics isn't fun.

To a certain extent, platforms are platitudes that you test when you get to govern. You have to run those priorities up against the opposition and decide what's most important.

There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.

In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when they set it up we would just have a two-party system. It just so happens that our electorate pushed towards the two-party system because it's a very good way to govern.

When you are not in power for 20 years and several leaders are in the race, it is tough to put forth one face. The most important things are our policies and principles.

Look, politics can be tough.

Political parties - which too often operate like closed circles - must open up.

Politics is awful.

She's going to do what her donors want. That's who Nancy Pelosi is. Not remotely progressive.

I am kind of an idealist but I became a DUP member because I believe politics should have a footing in harsh reality.

We critique all politicians who are in power, whenever there's a talking point.

The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That’s why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business.