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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
— Irving Kristol
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
— Irving Kristol
Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.
— Irving Kristol
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
— Bill Kristol
A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.
— Irving Kristol
A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.
— Irving Kristol
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
— Irving Kristol
There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.
— Irving Kristol
If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world ... and I think we will be respected around the world.
— William Kristol
Bush is no conservative.
— Bill Kristol
Have you ever met a war you didn't love?
— William Kristol
Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.
— William Kristol
If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
— Bill Kristol
Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.
— Irving Kristol
The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.
— William Kristol
If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.
— Irving Kristol
If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.
— Irving Kristol
Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.
— William Kristol
These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.
— William Kristol
What rules the world is ideas," Kristol once wrote, "because ideas define the way reality is perceived.
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Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?
— Bill Kristol
Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
— Bill Kristol
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
— William Kristol
American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.
— William Kristol
Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children I tend to think it's a good idea.
— William Kristol
It was a new kind of class war the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector. — Irving Kristol
White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.
— William Kristol
Republicans can also point to an alternate path. They can draw upon genuine experts to explain what should be done.
— William Kristol
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
— Bill Kristol
Iraq's always been very secular.
— William Kristol
A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.
— Irving Kristol
The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.
— Irving Kristol
Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.
— William Kristol
The most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.
— Irving Kristol
