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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Monica Elizabeth Crowley was the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. She has been a political commentator and lobbyist. She was a Fox News contributor, where she worked from 1996 to 2017. She is a former online opinion editor for The Washington Times and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate.
The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media.
The Left can play the race card incessantly without consequence or punishment, but woe to anyone else who even breathes valid opposition to their policies: Thou shall be deemed a racist.
Obama doesn't run around wearing a Carrie Bradshaw-esque nameplate necklace that says 'Socialist.' But his policies, actions, words, background and associations speak louder than any ID necklace ever could.
Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the potential use of the IRS against one or two political opponents.
If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.
Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.
In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government.
Bill Clinton wanted to survive. And Bill Clinton wanted to thrive, not just for himself, although that's primarily what drives Bill Clinton. He's a classic narcissist. So of course he wanted to thrive and succeed. But he also wanted America to thrive and succeed, which is why he worked with a Republican Congress.
Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John F. Kennedy, who lowered marginal tax rates to get economic growth and job creation. Barack Obama and the far left, they are a completely different ball of wax.
I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.
Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.
President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do.
If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.
Bill Clinton is a classic, old-school Southern pragmatic Democrat.
Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It's so sad. There's another obstacle for him to clear.
Leftism in all its forms must be halted and turned back resoundingly.
Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.
Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move.
Michelle Obama is a major asset for the president.
In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'
American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.
Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war.
Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing to the nation they dedicated their lives to keep alive.
For years, Suzanne Somers has been a pioneer when it comes to alternative medical treatments.
Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.
Barack Obama is Occupy Wall Street. Barrack Obama is plugged into that world. That's what he believes.
Some political spouses are much more comfortable on the campaign trail than others, and they take to it a lot more naturally.
Ann Romney has been front-and-center. She's held a lot of town halls, a lot of campaign rallies, on her own, separate from her husband. And she is dynamite out on the campaign trail.
One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else.
If there were a bunch of Buddhist or Hindus or Roman Catholics carrying out grotesque acts of international terror, I would expect to see their faces on the side of bus.
The tactics of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama are geared toward wealth redistribution.
Once the tentacles of redistributionism wrap themselves tightly around every part of the economy - and around our psyches - they can never be unwound.
We need a direct repudiation of Barack Obama and everything for which he stands.
There were no dead bodies in Watergate.
One thing about liberals: It doesn't even occur to them that there is another side to an argument. They are so convinced of the righteousness of their own position that it doesn't dawn on them that a reasonable person might have a different viewpoint.
I'm thrilled to be working with Goldline, the very best in the gold business.
Blowing terrorists to smithereens is gratifying.
Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you.
Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man.
The United States of America - once great, grand and free - is on the path to becoming just another country.
During his public life, Barack Obama has often referred to his biracial background and itinerant childhood and has said, 'In no other country on Earth is my story even possible.' True.
According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion.
During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.'
It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.
Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.
We need the ability to buy healthcare insurance across state lines that would increase competition and drive down cost.
American presidential leadership never goes out of style.
Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.
When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.
Conservatives are always right about everything. We are. We are.
I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.
Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.
We need to reform the health code so that people are incentivized to buy their own health insurance rather than have to get it through an employer.
When the Left agitates over government policies, it's considered righteous anger. When the Right - and much of the center - agitate, it's painted as the rantings of the criminally and violently insane.
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.
Weak presidents are neither respected nor electorally rewarded by their publics.
The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it.
I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.
It took a catastrophe of socialized medicine to wake a lot of people up because it affects every single person in America, either directly or indirectly. That's when you get people's attention - when it directly affects them.