List of John Podhoretz Quotes

I Don't Feel Alienated From American Culture, But I Understand People Who Do.

In The Democratic Primary In 2008, The Obama Team Devised A Strategy To Use The Caucuses And A Complicated System Of Awarding Delegates In The State Primaries To Sneak Up On Hillary Clinton And Establish A Lead Obama Never Surrendered.

It Has Never Made Any Sense To Argue That, Unique Among The People Of The World, Arabs Are More Concerned On A Day-to-day Basis About The Treatment Of People They Don't Know Than They Are About How They're Going To Put Food On Their Own Tables, Or Whether Their Sons Will Ever Find A Job.

Making Recess Appointments When The Senate Isn't In Recess Is Neither Rational Nor Moderate. It's A Raw Misuse Of Executive Power By A President Whose Love Of Government Is His Most Vulnerable Spot With The Electorate.

Many People Crave Security And Stability Rather Than Risk-taking, And That Doesn't Make Them Any Less American. They Are The Workers Rather Than The Job Creators, And All Societies Need Both.

Nixon In 1968, Unlike Obama 2008, Was Elected As A Minority President With Only 43 Percent Of The Vote. Yet, In 1972, He Won What, In Some Measures, Was The Most Lopsided Election In American History With 61 Percent.

Nixon Was An Awful President In Many Ways, Including In Some Of His Foreign-policy Choices. But He Left No Doubt That Foreign Policy And America's Leadership In The World Outside Its Borders Was Of Paramount Importance To Him.

The Great Mystery Is Why Robots Come Off So Well In Science-fiction Films When The Human Characters Are Often So Astoundingly Wooden.

Obama Lost His Ability To Push His Agenda Through Congress When He Received What He Himself Called A 'shellacking' In The November 2010 Elections. That Shellacking Was Primarily The Result Of Massive Policy Overreach When He Had A Democratic Congress In His Pocket.

Our Compulsive Hunger Always To Know First, Speak First And Decide First Has Only Been Amplified By The Fact That We Can Now All Participate Instantly In A Virtual Version Of A National Cocktail-party Conversation On Twitter, Facebook And Blogs.

I Look At 'the New York Review Of Books.' It's What It Has Been For 35 Or 40 Years, Which Is A Highly Sophisticated Vehicle For Anti-american Self-hatred.

Hurtling The Pentagon Into An Unprecedented Budgetary Meltdown Is Horrifically Irresponsible. Obama Doesn't Care. This Is War - Not Against The Taliban, But War Against The Gop. He Has Republicans On The Ropes, And That's A Victory He Savors And Desires - Unlike Afghanistan, Where He Seems Only To Want To Turn Tail.