"A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people."
Read quote
3 likes
Quote collection
Rich Lowry quotes (page 2 of 3)
51 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive."
Read quote
3 likes
"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"
Read quote
3 likes
"Clearly [Donald] Trump likes the way business executives and generals think and talk much more than policy professionals."
Read quote
3 likes
"From where I sit, it's a superb cabinet [for Donald Trump] so far. A lot of these choices could have been made by Ted Cruz. So you're going to have this shotgun marriage between a very orthodox Republican cabinet and a very unorthodox."
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes
"No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy."
Read quote
3 likes
"I would like to see someone with more traditional foreign policy experience and, obviously, his views and attitudes towards Russia will be a big part of the confirmation hearings [instead of Rex Tillerson]."
Read quote
3 likes
"Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off."
Read quote
3 likes
"Ultimately Rex Tillerson will reflect [Donald] Trump's policy towards Russia, which will be friendly up right up to the point of time it isn't."
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes
"It's worth remembering George W. Bush, Barack Obama also came in thinking they had the magic key to better, warmer relations with Russia; those efforts ended in tears."
Read quote
3 likes
"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?'"
Read quote
3 likes
"I think all of us in the commentary business need to take a deep breath. And it can't be true that every single week the world is ending in some different way. And this presidency [of Donald Trump] will be judged like all presidencies - on the state of the economy and by events."
Read quote
3 likes
"Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime."
Read quote
3 likes
"I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going to be a target rich environment, and [Rex] Tillerson."
Read quote
3 likes
"What (the Arizona immigration law) is likely to mean effectively is that if in the course of a traffic stop, a cop asks you for a driver's license, and you don't have one, and he asks you for other identification, and you have none, and he calls ICE and they have no record of you as a legal immigrant, you're in trouble. This is near-fascism?"
Read quote
3 likes
"Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news."
Read quote
3 likes
"There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone."
Read quote
3 likes