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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.
Quote by -John Podhoretz
I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
Quote by -John Podhoretz
The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.
Quote by -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.
Quote by -John Podhoretz
Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.
Quote by -John Podhoretz
Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.
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Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.
Quote by -John Podhoretz
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.
Quote by -John Podhoretz
Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.
Quote by -John Podhoretz
Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.
Quote by -John Podhoretz
America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.
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The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.
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What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.
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Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.
Quote by -John Podhoretz
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.
Quote by -John Podhoretz
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
Quote by -John Updike
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
Quote by -John Updike
Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
Quote by -John Updike
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
Quote by -John Updike
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Quote by -John Updike
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
Quote by -John Updike
The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.
Quote by -John Updike
Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.
Quote by -John Updike
Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.
Quote by -John Updike
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
Quote by -John Updike
The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.
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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
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We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.
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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
Quote by -John Updike
I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it.
Quote by -John Updike
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
Quote by -John Updike
When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me.
Quote by -John Updike
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.
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My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.
Quote by -John Updike