More From John Podhoretz
- "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."
- "But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he’s brilliant at. He can’t still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness."
- "Here’s a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing."
More In History
- "‘WASP’ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not."― Christopher Hitchens
- "We learned the value of research in World War II."― Amar Bose
- "That’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history."― William McKinley