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Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
- Bill Kristol
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Power tends to corrupt - so we should, in both the public and the private spheres, be on guard against, and erect sturdy guardrails against, the corruptions of power.
- Bill Kristol
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While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6 is crucial. If electoral victory is achieved, Obamacare can and will be repealed - and more judges of a constitutionalist persuasion will be appointed by the next president.
- Bill Kristol
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If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
- Bill Kristol
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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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Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?
- Bill Kristol
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If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.
- 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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#Important
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To the credit of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, people have been expelled or marginalized. Pat Buchanan in the '90s. Ron Paul, Rand Paul in the first decade of this century. Bill Buckley famously expelled the Birchers in 1964. It's been a movement that's tried to maintain its boundaries.
- Bill Kristol
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Self-government is an experiment. It could still fail.
- Bill Kristol
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Bush is no conservative.
- Bill Kristol
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#Conservative
I think the failures of Republican governance led to a distrust of Republican elites, which is fair enough.
- Bill Kristol
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Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.
- Bill Kristol
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#Critics
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#Praise
#Safe
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
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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
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In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
- Bill Kristol
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#Leadership
#War
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
- Bill Kristol
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#Weakness
#Worth
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
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#Discrimination
#Happiness
#History
#Lifestyle
#Will
Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent.
- Bill Kristol
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#Sitting
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
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#Say
#Something
#Think
#Willing
First impressions matter. Most people don't change their political views radically from the ones they first hold.
- Bill Kristol
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#First
#Hold
#Matter
#People
#Political Views
#Political
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
- Bill Kristol
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#Patriotism
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