Some discrimination is perfectly reasonable. The discrimination between trying to teach our kids what most of human history has thought was a desirable lifestyle that will contribute to their happiness, and trying to deter them – not to prohibit, and not to punish – but trying to steer them in a direction that will contribute to their happiness. Bill Kristol Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Republican government presupposes decent and admirable qualities among its citizens – so we should be serious about strengthening character and inculcating virtue. Bill Kristol Read Quote
No one can change the definition of what behavior is presidential because that definition fundamentally depends on what our form of government requires, not on what one individual prefers. Bill Kristol Read Quote
Immigration policy is a complicated issue. Or perhaps one should say immigration policies are complicated, since we have many different immigration laws and practices which interact in complex ways. Bill Kristol Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t think Palin really led to Trump. Was this somehow a bit of a precursor or something? I’m willing to say, ‘Maybe so.’ Bill Kristol Read Quote
The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion. Bill Kristol Read Quote
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 Read Quote
