Rich Lowry Quotes

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

I think just focusing on the wealth of these cabinet picks misunderstands [Donald] Trump's economic strategy here, which is going to be equal parts traditional Republican economics.

I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going to be a target rich environment, and [Rex] Tillerson.

The case against Jeff Sessions was threadbare three decades ago. It's based on hearsay and innuendo and a joke he made about the Klan.

It's worth remembering George W. Bush, Barack Obama also came in thinking they had the magic key to better, warmer relations with Russia; those efforts ended in tears.

Ultimately Rex Tillerson will reflect [Donald] Trump's policy towards Russia, which will be friendly up right up to the point of time it isn't.

Clearly [Donald] Trump likes the way business executives and generals think and talk much more than policy professionals.

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.

There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.

Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.

[Donald Trump] campaigned on repealing Obamacare.

Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime.

[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda.

There's no point trying to sugar-coat this or get Jesuitical about it. Yes, Russia tried to manipulate our election. It's appalling. Yes, it should be investigated and taken seriously.

No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.