James

“Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.”
― Charles Krauthammer

“You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933.”
― Charles Krauthammer, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

“You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933...Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.”
― Charles Krauthammer, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

“We grow justly weary of our politics. But we must remember this: Politics - in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations - is sovereign in human affairs. Everything ultimately rests upon it. Fairly or not, politics is the driver of history.”
― Charles Krauthammer, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics