John Podhoretz Quotes - Page 3

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• I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

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  Cities, Atmosphere, Conservative

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• I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

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  Thinking, Scorpions, Eric

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• I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

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  People, Culture, Feels

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• For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

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  Thinking, Example, Republican

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• Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

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  Song, Sirens, Schism

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

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• By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

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  Cutting, Class, Levels

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• America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.

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  America, President, May

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• Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

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  Bills, Internet, Computing

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• Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

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  Robots, Rich

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• She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

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  Beauty, Weakness, Needs

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

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• As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to 'The American' magazine.

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  Religious, Giving, Church

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• You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.

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  Winning, Thinking, Political

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• Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

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  Movie, Dark, Keys

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• As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

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  Ideas, Matter, Groups

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• All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

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  Promise, Campaigns, Levels

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• Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.

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  America, Cities, Bills

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• Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

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  Political, Guilty, Rhetoric

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• Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

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  Animal, Two, Comedian

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• The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

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  Jobs, Levels, Entry

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

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• The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

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  Firsts, Exit, Disappointing

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• You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

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  Party, Successful, Israel

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• In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

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  Black, Victim, Homicide

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• What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

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  Simple, United States, Failing

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• 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.

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  War, Victory, Desire

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• 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.

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  New York, Book, Self

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