Top 93 Quotes & Sayings by Monica Crowley - Page 2

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command.

When I visited Guantanamo Bay several years ago, I met a team of psychiatrists treating the detainees. When I asked how they distinguished between, say, schizophrenia or bipolarity and a bedrock religious commitment to holy war, they couldn't answer.

Give the enemy an inch, he'll take a yard.

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony.

The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are anything but what they are: acts of war.

The point of a presidential campaign is to put the candidate through the ringer: to force him to get banged up by his opponents and the press, and to have to answer the difficult and uncomfortable questions, be investigated, and learn the thrust and parry of political swordplay.

Not once since becoming president has Mr. Obama linked terror aimed at the United States with Islam.

The man who was known as 'no drama Obama' during the campaign has given us nothing but depleting and infuriating drama since he arrived in office.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

A people fatigued by bad presidential judgment aren't inclined to reward him or his party.

Messrs. Washington and Lincoln faced enormous difficulties, but they both gave their lives to make sure America survived.

Does every Muslim commit terror? Of course not.

President George W. Bush's aggressive war on Islamic terrorism produced a 100 percent perfect track record of keeping the United States safe from another attack. The result has been increased security for the American people, who, in turn, have become complacent about the true nature of the threat.

There are plenty of Muslims who live faithfully in the United States.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates, Mr. Obama was 'light-skinned' and lacked a 'Negro dialect.'

In the Hillary Clinton model, the wife chooses to support the straying husband while wearing a distressed and presumably pained expression in public. She stays in the marriage as a way to serve both her personal ambition as well as their shared ambition to achieve ever-greater positions of power and influence.

Trillions of dollars are being spent in the name of 'saving' the economy: bailouts, 'stimulus,' omnibus spending bills, budgets, government takeovers of the auto, health care and energy industries, all of which require ever more spending.

When government gets out of the way, the people achieve great things because of the promise of great rewards.

A president is always cosseted by his staff.

Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively.

For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they'll do better in the future. This double standard must end.

From 2002 to the end of his presidency, George W. Bush routinely was accused by the Left of 'creating chaos:' chaos in Iraq, chaos in Afghanistan, chaos in the Muslim world, chaos among our allies.

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

Give the enemy an inch, hell take a yard.

Oh absolutely. Look they hate all conservatives but they have a special kind of loathing for women conservatives.

Best things in life are free, and money can't buy you love.

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When you talk about presidents, loyalty is a great thing until it becomes a bad thing. Witness once again Watergate.

Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this country, it will be true because it's human nature.

The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.

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. Now that Democrats control the White House and Congress, the left treats dissent as the lowest form of treason.