Explore Quotes by John Podhoretz

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.

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

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

Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

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.

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

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

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.