John Podhoretz Quotes

• Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn’t truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He’s not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated – and by liberals as well as conservatives.

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  Tags in Conservatives, Suspicious

• 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.

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  Tags in Electoral, Desperate

• 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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  Tags in Campaign, Political

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

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  Tags in Republican, Thinking

• 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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  Tags in Pentagon, Taliban

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

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  Tags in Civility

• I’ve worked as someone’s deputy, and now it’s time for me to run something. It’s time for me to run my own shop.

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  Tags in Run, Time

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conservatives, Wealthy

• In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.

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  Tags in Complicated, Strategy

• 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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  Tags in Productive

• 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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  Tags in Charitable, Contributions

• As the Republican nominee, it was Romney’s job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them.

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  Tags in Solutions, Difficulties

• 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

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  Tags in Cheating, Romney

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

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  Tags in American

• Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country’s course. This cuts against the grain, and that’s why incumbents have a natural advantage.

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  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Why

• But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he’s brilliant at. He can’t still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.

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  Tags in Brilliant, Deliver

• 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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  Tags in Middle Class, Tax Cuts

• By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.

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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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  Tags in Feature, Genre

John Podhoretz (89)

Birth:	18th April, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Columnist, Editor, Writer

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John Mordecai Podhoretz was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an American author, columnist, editor and a former presidential speechwriter. He is the editor of Commentary magazine and a columnist for the New York Post. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1982. He served as speechwriter to former U.S. President Ronald Reagan as well as former President George H.W. Bush. He has written several books include: Hell of a Ride, Bush country, and Can She Be Stopped?

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