"He was literally in a class by himself. He was […] one of a kind. And […] for all of the sharpness of his thought and writing […] he was extraordinarily kind and gentle. And the combination made you love him. And we did. All of us did. The audience did. You couldn't help it. […] He was a giant of our time, and of our trade. […] He wrote beautifully ; he was careful about his facts ; he thought things through ; and he conducted himself with extraordinary dignity and grace. […] You couldn't dislike him. You couldn't help but admire him. […] Even if you disagreed with him, you recognized the power of his thought, the thoroughness of his research, and the quality of his writing. And […] if you knew him personally, there was that wonderful quality that he had – that kindness, that gentleness, that grace – and […] if you knew what he’d been through, and you could see what he’d overcome, and you saw the way he’d handled all that, […] you admired him as you probably didn’t admire anyone else. I can’t think of anyone on earth that I admired more than Charles Krauthammer, and I admire him to this day."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Pulitzer Prize winnersColumnists from the United StatesPolitical authors from the United StatesPhysicians from New York CityPsychiatrists from the United States
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Brit Hume, on the Fox News show "Tucker Carlson Tonight" 21 June 2018.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer (March 13, 1950 - June 21, 2018) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and political commentator. He wrote a weekly column syndicated to more than 400 newspapers worldwide, including The Washington Post. He was also a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard, a panelist on Fox News's Special Report with Bret Baier, and a panelist on the PBS news program Inside Washington.
83 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Charles Krauthammer →
Related Quotes
"Late in the game, Blue's king was under savage attack by Kasparov. Any human player under such assault by a world cha…"
"There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today’s pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon …"
"In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don’t.) Einstein …"
"Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their…"
"Communism always had sympathetic Westerners who amounted to a fifth column, including communist parties and intellect…"
"There's something in the Western psyche, especially the Western liberal, pluralistic psyche, that finds it impossible…"
"Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall ch…"
"Israel is different. In Israel the great temptation of modernity — assimilation — simply does not exist. Israel is th…"
"Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extr…"
"In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today…"