Richard Cohen

“Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain h...”

“In my several visits to Germany, I have written in admiration of that country's strenuous efforts to face its past and make amends.”

“Say what you will about Donald Trump, he cares. He cares about things I don't, and he has some awful ideas, and he is an amoral man in so many ways. But, in contrast to Obama, his emotions a...”

“The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.”

“Hillary Clinton looms over the Democratic Party like Evita from her balcony.”

“Trump's presidency will fail. Just don't ask me how and when. It will collapse because at its center is a hollow man, lacking ballast, whose chaos cannot be contained.”

“Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did not matter at all. He had the experience, the confi...”

“Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to make fools of his friends.”

“Churchill had a marvelous way with words, and greatness accompanied him like a shadow, but in certain ways, he was a 19th-century man wandering, confounded, in the 20th.”

“I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.”

“The NRA has led the way in the mainstreaming of a demented gun ideology.”

“It's all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of the United States - if first I get a chance to bust him one in the mouth.”

“Something about the Clintons sets the GOP to howling at the moon.”

“Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent placed in internment camps during Worl...”

“Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of Rupert Murdoch's 'New York Post.' Trump's oxygen was the l...”

“Trump's overriding accomplishment is plain: The Republican Party can no longer be shamed.”

“Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows, he has done nothing but run for office, winning all but t...”

“You have to admit that Trump is endlessly creative. He has insulted the disabled, the dead, the parents of the dead, women, Mexicans, Muslims, Asians, African Americans, former POWs, the med...”

“Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.”

“Private enterprise cannot rebuild the nation's infrastructure or keep our research institutions vibrant. Government must do what only it can do.”