Bill Kristol Quotes

Well, Foley is responsible for it, and the voters in Florida, I guess, who elected him. Maybe they should have known better.

The deep state is far preferable to the Trump state.

Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.

I’d rather fight than switch. It’s worth fighting.

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.

Donald Trump is an embarrassment. It would be better for the country if he were president for at most one term.

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 A public life with occasional cringeworthy moments has been replaced by one that is on the whole cringeworthy.

[T]here seem to be more CRIMINALS in the Trump Administration than in the Caravan.

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.

It's not a serious document.

[I]nstitutions are strong; it turns out you don't need a lot of sensible or even sane leadership in the White House.

The town hall has the spirit of representative democracy, the rally of autocracy.

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.

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..."

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.