Bill Kristol Quotes
born 1952 United States
William "Bill" Kristol (born 23 December 1952) is an American neoconservative commentator.
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No disease any refugee might bring to America is as dangerous as the disease of fear, bigotry and hatred now being spread in America by Fox.
I’d rather fight than switch. It’s worth fighting.
You have to use words as they are understood in your time and place.
The town hall has the spirit of representative democracy, the rally of autocracy.
Isn't conservatism in part about resisting so-called new realities when you sense they might be questionable, even as people lecture you that you’ve got to get with the times?
Still a Republican (2018)
Almost every Afghan refugee will turn out to be so much better an American than Charlie Kirk.
Younger people actually understand how it works. They don't just take what they are fed according to their preferences; they go look at other things. So I've always been more anti-baby boomer and more pro-millennial.
Well, Foley is responsible for it, and the voters in Florida, I guess, who elected him. Maybe they should have known better.
Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.
We're to blame for the "bad blood." Not Putin. The real meaning of America First is Blame America First.
Donald Trump is an embarrassment. It would be better for the country if he were president for at most one term.
A Sense of Responsibility (2017)
[I]nstitutions are strong; it turns out you don't need a lot of sensible or even sane leadership in the White House.
Interview with the Octavian Report (2018)
The rhetorical extremism, the winking at violence, the reveling in vulgarity, and the embrace of amoralism are not bugs but features of Trumpism. Intellectual and moral coarsening is both a condition and a consequence of the demagogue's success. Trumpism really does corrupt.
I think Rumsfeld was not a good Defense Secretary. I'm glad he's gone.
It's not a serious document.
[T]here seem to be more CRIMINALS in the Trump Administration than in the Caravan.
Hasn't America really always been, at least since the middle of the 19th century, a majority-minority country? Lincoln, July 10, 1858: "We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men..."
So WE are to blame for the "bad blood" with Russia. Not what Putin has done in Ukraine, in Syria, in the UK, at home, or with respect to our elections. Amazing.