H.W. Charles Quotes

The reason we tend to support Republicans is they're taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour.

I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is a system for moral people. It will work for no other.

Scientific discoveries and innovation come from combining different existing technologies and different perspectives in a unique way.

Just Donald Trump's tenor and insulting of people is just beyond the pale.

I don't believe in a plumb line. I believe in the exchange of ideas.

You can't start taking away benefits if people don't have any opportunities.

What we need to work on is how to increase productivity. And then everybody will be better off.

Just spreading the money around - that isn't what makes people better off; it's having more and better goods and services.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.

Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

History is not just cruel. It is witty.

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy.

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.

Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.

If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.

It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.

When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.

Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.

If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her.

Pass legislation. When Obama signs, you've shown seriousness and the ability to govern. When he vetoes, you've clarified the differences between party philosophies and prepared the ground for 2016.

The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize the Syria campaign.

Somebody actually said that I'm the only entity on earth, other than rogue states, that has received an apology from the White House.

Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.

If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.

Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.