John Podhoretz quotes

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes. (John Podhoretz)
The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001. View quote
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Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. View quote
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There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline. View quote
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Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change. View quote
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That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles. View quote
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The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't. View quote
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Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed. View quote
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America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. View quote
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While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future. View quote
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Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing. (John Podhoretz)
Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else. View quote
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Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated. View quote
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Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president. View quote
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Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right. View quote
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Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act. View quote
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The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it. View quote
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The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis. View quote
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Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. View quote
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You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results. View quote
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Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out. (John Podhoretz)
Let us now praise Barack Obama. View quote
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Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses? View quote
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Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. View quote
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The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state. View quote
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John Podhoretz

Occupation: American Writer
Born: April 18, 1961
Quotes count: 75