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Bill Kristol

American Politician

Born: Dec 23, 1952

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

Patriotism Defense Weapon Civilization Indispensable Against Barbarism

In many cases, it's a choice. There are many, many human beings through history - millions and millions and millions - who have been both homosexual at times in their lives and then heterosexual, or vice-versa, or bisexual. How can it be a biological imperative if people can change? Bill Kristol

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All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments. Bill Kristol

Made Needless Defense Secretaries Say Wartime

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

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If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline. Bill Kristol

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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 personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from. Bill Kristol

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness. Bill Kristol

Worth Conservatism Too Conservatives Liberalism Weakness Rise Proud Lest Recalling

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

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A woman, like a man, should be treated with human decency, according to the rule of law, and free of the abusive, unjust exercise of power. And you don't need to have plumbed the depths of the female or male psyche to live in accord with these principles of civilized life and the maxims of a free society. Bill Kristol

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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

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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

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

Think Enough Distrust Failures Fair Governance Led Which Republican Elites

In terms of the conservative movement, I do think it would be foolish to deny that Trump has exposed certain aspects of that movement as less healthy than I thought or hoped. Bill Kristol

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