John Podhoretz

“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.”

“Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.”

“We must say something, even when we know nothing.”

“The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.”

“Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.”

“One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.”

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

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

“Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.”

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

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

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

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

“Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?”

“The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.”

“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.”

“Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.”