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.

Monica Crowley

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

Monica Crowley

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.

Monica Crowley

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

Monica Crowley

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

Monica Crowley

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.

Monica Crowley

The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media.

Monica Crowley

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

Monica Crowley

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.

Monica Crowley

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.

Monica Crowley

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.

Monica Crowley

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.

Monica Crowley

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.'

Monica Crowley

Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Monica Crowley

Michelle Obama is a major asset for the president.

Monica Crowley

According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion.

Monica Crowley

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

Monica Crowley

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.

Monica Crowley

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.

Monica Crowley

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.

Monica Crowley