Rich Lowry Quotes

#1. The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is ... beside the point.

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#2. John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

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#3. Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

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#4. If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.

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#5. When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.

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#6. The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.

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#7. Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

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#8. You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

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#9. Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

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#10. America roused to a righteous anger has always been a force for good. States that have been supporting if not Osama bin Laden, people like him need to feel pain. If we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that is part of the solution.

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#11. Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

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#12. Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

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#13. Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.

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#14. There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

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#15. There is no appeasing Putin. Frankly, there is no directly stopping him, either. It is only possible to raise the costs to him of his war, including the military costs. If we won'€t provide military materiel to Ukraine now, we deserve the contempt with which Putin regards us.

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#16. We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'

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#17. If Hillary can't win the nomination - and it's clearly very, very hard for her - she's basically a stalking horse for McCain. She's preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama.

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#18. If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego.

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#19. Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

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#20. Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime.

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#21. A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

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#22. In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

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#23. Well, part of the trick of getting elected president, if you look at George W. Bush and Barack Obama, is convincing the other side, at least temporarily, not to hate and fear. And that, Trump is not going to able to do that

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#24. Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

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#25. When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

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#26. Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

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#27. Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

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#28. Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

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#29. Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

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#30. Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

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#31. We are a product of our families, schools, and churches. Without the liberty and rule of law that characterize America, entrepreneurship would indeed be impossible. Any successful American who is not a patriot is a rank ingrate.

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#32. It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.

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#33. Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

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#34. There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.

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#35. The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

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#36. No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.

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#37. Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.

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#38. France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

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