Fred Barnes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

President Obama insists hes a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.
-- Fred Barnes

#Guy #President #Wonder
The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
-- Fred Barnes

#Giving Up #Winning #Media
Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.
-- Fred Barnes

#Strong #People #Decision
Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration patterns, just to name a few. He is persuasive and provocative and always scintillating. I've read all his books and never been even faintly disappointed. Black Rednecks & White Liberals is no exception.
-- Fred Barnes

#Book #Redneck #Race
Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. 'I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves,' he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one.
-- Fred Barnes

#Men #Views #Care
Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.
-- Fred Barnes

#Thinking #Political #Doe
Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.
-- Fred Barnes

#Believe #Reality #Political
Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering.
-- Fred Barnes

#Fall #Men #Support
Never miss it - that's the second biggest compliment I'd give to RealClearPolitics.com. The first is that it has become indispensable to anyone, in or outside of journalism, who's interested in politics, policy, or world affairs.
-- Fred Barnes

#Giving #Missing #World
The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.
-- Fred Barnes

#War #Media #America

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