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" 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. "

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" Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right. "

John Podhoretz

Employees

Boss

Father

" When you have controversial parents, people have expectations about you. If every day at work I thought to myself, 'How does this relate to them?' I'd be paralyzed. "

" Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers. "

John Podhoretz

Over

Will

" 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. "

" You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power. "

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

" 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. "

" That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles. "

" Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president. "

John Podhoretz

President

Life

" 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. "

" What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail. "

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

" 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. "

" Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take. "

" 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

Cheating

Bad

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

John Podhoretz

Rest

Horror

" For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion. "

" 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. "

" Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Let us now praise Barack Obama. "

John Podhoretz

Now

Barack Obama

" Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. "

" There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment. "

John Podhoretz

Conservative

New

" Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs. "

" Robots have a rich and storied history in movies. "