John Podhoretz Quotes

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• Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

  John Podhoretz

  Reflection, Culture, Causes

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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.

  John Podhoretz

  Spiritual, Jobs, Insulting

  "The real trouble with Rick" by John Podhoretz, nypost.com. February 21, 2012.

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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.

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  Fashion, Block, Snow

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• All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.

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  Ignorant, Tongue, Conservative

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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.

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  Sound, Pay, Problem

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• Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

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  Race, Political, Gender

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• Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

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  Winning, Giving, Political

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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.

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  Father, Talking, Boss

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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.

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  Hurt, Growth, Steps

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• Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

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  Politician, American History, Barack

  "A brilliant victory" by John Podhoretz, nypost.com. November 7, 2012.

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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.

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  Ideas, Negativity, Demoralizing

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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.

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  Team, Rights, America

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• Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

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  Media, Break Through, Needs

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• Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

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  Thumbs, Losing, Very Good

  "Stopping Hillary". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 9, 2006.

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• Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.

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  Country, Fighting, Intelligent

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• 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.

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  Government, Vision, Wealth Creation

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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.

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  Moving, Years, Political

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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.

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  Tunnels, Light, Promise

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• 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.

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  President, Minorities, Election

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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.

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  Country, War, Two

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• 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.

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  Zero, Real, Mosques

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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.

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  Suicide, Children, Media

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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.

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  Thanking Him, Horror, American History

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• Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.

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  Years, Inheritance, Delight

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• This, of course, has no chance of passing. But then Tuesday night'€™s State of the Union address could be the first one in history deliberately designed solely to generate a Pavlovian rage response in members of the opposing party.

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  Party, Night, Tuesday

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