Victor Davis Hanson Quotes

America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritative systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

Unfortunately, if you're going to say anything that's in your head, you're going to get some kickback.

I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.

My critics began saying I was a chauvinist, nationalist, mad nationalist.

Every time you blow the whistle, half the people are going to be mad at you.

For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

There's always a backlash in everything that you do, but it's not going to stop or change anything. And it's not only an issue in Hollywood.

There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.

It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.

I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

There's backlash about everything I do.

People hate us for showing stuff, and they hate us when we say, 'Fine, we won't show it anymore.'

I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.

From 2002 to the end of his presidency, George W. Bush routinely was accused by the Left of 'creating chaos:' chaos in Iraq, chaos in Afghanistan, chaos in the Muslim world, chaos among our allies.

Anti-Americanism has been around as long as there has been an America.

If you are to strike, then make it painful, because you'll get the same blame either way.

The function will be criticized, since there is already talk of a so-called “Cliveden” set which is alleged to be pro-Hitler, but which, in reality, is only pro-Chamberlain and pro-sense.

Japan is running an ongoing political campaign in America as if it were a third major party.