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John Podhoretz Inspirational Quotes (48)

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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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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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What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.
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Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
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Let us now praise Barack Obama.
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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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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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This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.
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When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.
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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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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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Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.
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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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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
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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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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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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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If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.
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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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Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.
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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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I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
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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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Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
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