Norman Podhoretz Quotes & Sayings

The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture. — Norman Podhoretz

Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves. — Norman Podhoretz

[T]he isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism of the Right is based on the belief that the rest of the world is bad for America. — Norman Podhoretz

"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it". — Norman Podhoretz

The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel. — Norman Podhoretz

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. — Norman Podhoretz