William Kristol Quotes

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• Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.
• I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers…
• And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in…
• Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.
• Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes are Romney supporters - especially of course seniors (who might well…
• The most devastating indictment of the president's proposal is that it threatens to destroy virtually everything about American health care that's worth preserving. Under the…
• If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
• These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.
• [I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United States are still…
• Republicans can also point to an alternate path. They can draw upon genuine experts to explain what should be done.
• If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to…
• Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
• Iraq's always been very secular.
• The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias.... There's too much tilt toward the left-wing agenda. Too much…
• The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.
• Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?
• In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by…
• Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing,…
• Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
• He should release the tax returns tomorrow. It's crazy. You've got to release six, eight, ten years back tax returns. Take the hit for a…

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