15 Terrific Quotes By - Bill Kristol

15 Terrific Quotes By - Bill Kristole

Power tends to corrupt - so we should, in both the public and the private spheres, be on guard against, and erect sturdy guardrails against, the corruptions of power.

— Bill Kristol

The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.

— Bill Kristol

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

— Bill Kristol

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?

— Bill Kristol

American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's not as if these things haven't always existed, and they were powerful. The big difference is Trump is president.

— Bill Kristol

I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.

— Bill Kristol

I think the failures of Republican governance led to a distrust of Republican elites, which is fair enough.

— Bill Kristol

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

— Bill Kristol

Here's one measure of the man and the scope of his achievement: No serious historian will be able to write about 20th-century America without discussing Bill Buckley. Before Buckley, there was no conservative movement. After Buckley, there was Ronald Reagan.

— Bill Kristol

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.

— Bill Kristol

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

— Bill Kristol

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.

— Bill Kristol

Reagan was the most important American political figure of the latter half of the 20th century. No one was more central to his emergence and success than Bill Buckley.

— Bill Kristol

Self-government is an experiment. It could still fail.

— Bill Kristol

I was involved in the 'reformicon' effort in 2013-2014, which was explicitly, 'We can't just Xerox Reagan.' In the spirit of Reagan, actually, we could rethink things - maybe we need to think more about job-training programs, earned income tax credit, adjust the tax code.

— Bill Kristol

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