Charles Krauthammer Quotes (page 2)
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In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today`s shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.
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If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life . . .
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Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust...
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After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.
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A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.
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