Quotes from John Podhoretz

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.

Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.

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

Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

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.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

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

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

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

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.

The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.

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

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

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

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

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

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.

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.