John Podhoretz Quotes

Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.

The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

I changed to Republican when Reagan became president because I wanted to see a change to years of Democrat-run Senate. And I voted Republican until Obama. I think he's terrific.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.

America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something - to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

There’s so much in the papers about Ronald Reagan and it looks like he’s on his way to become president, it does look scary.

Ronald Reagan was 3 parts optimism and 1 part nostalgia.

The first time I began to really think about politics was in fifth grade, during President Reagan's first term.

I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time.

Reagan is the subject of ongoing political debate, and a lot of liberals don't want to take Reagan any more seriously than they did when he was president. I understand why they don't, but they should.

I still subscribe to the theory that Ronald Reagan once pronounced: that I will never speak ill will of my fellow Republican.

Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was.

I think Obama is going to go down as one of our greatest presidents because what this guy has done and has tried to do, and over the kind of opposition that I don't know if Lincoln had, except he had to go to war. This speaks so brilliantly of Obama and the way he conducts himself. I think he is already one of our greatest presidents.

The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does.

There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.

I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America.

Regardless of your political affiliation, most people agree that Ronald Reagan was an American icon. He was a president of national significance and for that reason he deserves an honor in the nation's capital.

Does Obama create confusion on purpose?

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.