Rich Lowry Quotes & Sayings

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. — Rich Lowry

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are. — Rich Lowry

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad. — Rich Lowry

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

Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off. — Rich Lowry

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

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. — Rich Lowry

If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego. — Rich Lowry

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about. — Rich Lowry

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

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. — Rich Lowry

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

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation. — Rich Lowry

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

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

We are a product of our families, schools, and churches. Without the liberty and rule of law that characterize America, entrepreneurship would indeed be impossible. Any successful American who is not a patriot is a rank ingrate. — Rich Lowry

There is no appeasing Putin. Frankly, there is no directly stopping him, either. It is only possible to raise the costs to him of his war, including the military costs. If we won'€t provide military materiel to Ukraine now, we deserve the contempt with which Putin regards us. — Rich Lowry

We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?' — Rich Lowry

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks. — Rich Lowry

We all know the Lincoln of the Second Inaugural and the Gettysburg Address. We need to know the Lincoln of the Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society and of the Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions, both talks in which he vents his favorite enthusiasms. We need to understand his thirst for economic and industrial development. We need to realize that he was a lawyer for corporations, a vigorous advocate of property rights, and a defender of an "elitist" economics against the unreflective populist bromides of his age. We need to focus on his love for the Founders as guides to the American future. We need to grapple with his ferocious ambition, personal and political. — Rich Lowry

What (the Arizona immigration law) is likely to mean effectively is that if in the course of a traffic stop, a cop asks you for a driver's license, and you don't have one, and he asks you for other identification, and you have none, and he calls ICE and they have no record of you as a legal immigrant, you're in trouble. This is near-fascism? — Rich Lowry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Rich Lowry

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

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

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. — Rich Lowry

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith. — Rich Lowry

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

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting. — Rich Lowry

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

America roused to a righteous anger has always been a force for good. States that have been supporting if not Osama bin Laden, people like him need to feel pain. If we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that is part of the solution. — Rich Lowry

Well, part of the trick of getting elected president, if you look at George W. Bush and Barack Obama, is convincing the other side, at least temporarily, not to hate and fear. And that, Trump is not going to able to do that — Rich Lowry

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

The horn of dilemma of energy politics is what really drives concern about this energy in this country, at the gut level for most people, is high gas prices. And if you really want to fight global warming and try to reduce our carbon emissions, the cleanest, easiest, most rational way to do it would to make the price of gas even higher through very stiff gas prices. — Rich Lowry

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

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

If Hillary can't win the nomination - and it's clearly very, very hard for her - she's basically a stalking horse for McCain. She's preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama. — Rich Lowry