Ponnuru Ramesh Quotes & Sayings

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first. — Michelle Obama

And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone. — Carl Sagan

Death, with one-eyed jack in his hand,
makes a promise to the thirteenth child. — Anne Sexton

That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upward but downward as well. — C. G. Jung

We need a president who stands up, number one, and says, we will defeat ISIS. And number two, says the greatest national security threat facing America is a nuclear Iran. — Ted Cruz

I always refer to the Lutherans first. — Sierra Simone

It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual ... When I look at the debate over Elian ... I have to say that rarely have I been prouder of my fellow conservatives. — Ramesh Ponnuru

It's pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride. — Haruki Murakami

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes. — Mahatma Gandhi

Republicans ought to propose conservative answers to the concerns that are uppermost on most voters' minds. The libertarian-populist method seems to be to start with the solutions and then to imagine that voters have the relevant concerns. And while many of the proposed solutions have great potential appeal to conservative voters, few would do much to expand their ranks. — Ramesh Ponnuru

Can we behold, unheeding,
Life's holiest feelings crush'd; -
While Woman's heart is bleeding,
Shall Woman's voice be hush'd? — Elizabeth Margaret Chandler

There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men. — Adolf Hitler

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality. — Lewis Carroll

Ramesh Ponnuru and others say Obama is a conventional liberal. But conventional liberals don't come out for the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Conventional liberals don't return the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. Conventional liberals don't block oil drilling in America while subsidizing oil drilling in Brazil. — Dinesh D'Souza