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Bill Kristol
24 quotes
“You have to use words as they are understood in your time and place.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "'Conservative': A Term Up for Grabs" (18 November 2020), by Jay Nordlinger, National Review
“Well, Foley is responsible for it, and the voters in Florida, I guess, who elected him. Maybe they should have known better.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Responding if Republican house leadership bears any responsibility for failing to properly address inappropriate emails allegedly sent by former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) to an underage male congressional page. (October …
“It's not a serious document.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fox News Live (December 6, 2006)
“I think Rumsfeld was not a good Defense Secretary. I'm glad he's gone.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fox News Sunday, December 17, 2006
“The present moment is not one to be proud of. The normal vulgarity of democratic politics has become the shameless demagoguery of democratic decadence. The routine operation of party politics has given way to the mindless polarization of partisan fanatics. The characteristic limitations of popular leaders have yielded to an abdication of leadership itself. A public life with occasional cringeworthy moments has been replaced by one that is on the whole cringeworthy.”
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“Donald Trump is an embarrassment. It would be better for the country if he were president for at most one term.”
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“The noble simplicity of sentiment in McCain’s tweets is a world removed from Trump’s gaudy and boastful displays. And McCain’s demonstration of character and courage is a far more reliable guide to American greatness than the pronouncements of a president who speaks of it nonstop and embodies it not at all.”
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“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.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post (11 April 2018)
“We're to blame for the "bad blood." Not Putin. The real meaning of America First is Blame America First.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post (11 April 2018)
“Winners have standards.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post (10 June 2018)
“[I]nstitutions are strong; it turns out you don't need a lot of sensible or even sane leadership in the White House.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with the Octavian Report (2018)
“The town hall has the spirit of representative democracy, the rally of autocracy.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post (3 September 2018)
“I’d rather fight than switch. It’s worth fighting.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post (9 September 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.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post (20 October 2018)
“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.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post (29 October 2018)
“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.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Bill Kristol: 'I've Always Been More Anti-Baby Boomer and More Pro-Millennial'" (30 October 2018), by Renee Brown-Cheng, Bold
“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...”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post (6 November 2018)
“[T]here seem to be more CRIMINALS in the Trump Administration than in the Caravan.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post (21 November 2018)
“Trump is the proximate, the efficient, cause of the collapse of the conservative movement. The principles of sound conservatism compel us to criticize him, to rebut him, to resist him, and to plan to overcome him.”
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“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?”
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“Almost every Afghan refugee will turn out to be so much better an American than Charlie Kirk.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post (16 August 2021)
“The Obama years have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Severely wanting. By the end of Obama's presidency, the U.S. standing in the world was weaker—clearly and appreciably weaker—than when he became president. The force of American power was diminished, and freedom was in retreat. By the end of Obama's presidency, was there a single part of the world where the United States was in a stronger position than when he took office? Was there an ally who was more confident or an adversary who was less so? By the end of Obama's presidency, were any important countries either friendlier or freer than they had been when he took over? The answer to all these questions: no.”
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“[T]he Islamic world is a source of danger and destruction is all too conceivable. Indeed, it’s been on display, in plain sight, for years... The jihadist threat is real, and it must, obviously, be fought and defeated. But that raises another problem—not a problem with Islam, but a problem with the West. We have lost our nerve. In recent years, the attitude of Barack Obama has prevailed over the spirit of Charlie Hebdo. The claims of sensitivity have trumped the attachment to freedom. Appeasement of jihad has supplanted the war on terror. Most fundamentally—let’s be honest—fear has overwhelmed courage. And so the American president has been happy to proclaim, as he did at the United Nations in September 2012, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” He has been less willing to say that the future must not belong to those who kill in the name of the prophet of Islam... We face a crisis of Islam. We need to be clear-eyed about that. But we also face a crisis of the West. Only if we come to grips with that second crisis will this period of consequences turn out to be an occasion for renewal rather than another marker on the path to decadence.”
Bill Kristol (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source