Bill Kristol Quotes

#1. The people who got everything wrong are back on TV talking about the place they got all wrong? Cheney, Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle. It's like Satan's VIP list for Hell.

Bill Maher

#2. 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 If electoral victory is achieved, Obamacare can and will be repealed - and more judges of a constitutionalist persuasion will be appointed by the next president.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

#3. All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

Bill Kristol

#4. 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

#5. Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?

Bill Kristol

#6. 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

#7. You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.

Leonard Cohen

#8. If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#9. 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

#10. I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

Marquis De Lafayette

#11. There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.

Bill Kristol

#12. Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

Zora Neale Hurston

#13. Bush is no conservative.

Bill Kristol

#14. 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

#15. Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.

James Tiptree Jr.

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

Bill Kristol

#17. 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

#18. Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

Bill Kristol

#19. The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

Bill Kristol

#20. Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to suggest that the mind may be a distinct and different essence.

Wilder Penfield

#21. Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

Katherine Center

#22. Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.

Barack Obama

#23. If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

Bill Kristol

#24. He fought the men and he slayed the monsters and he bested the gods, and at last the hero, having conquered all, earned the thing that he wanted most. To go home.

Victoria Schwab

#25. Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

Bill Kristol

#26. I used to want to be the black dude in The Last Dragon. I wanted to be Ralph Tresvant from New Edition - I thought he was super cool.

Deon Cole

#27. I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

Ben Affleck

#28. I know something. America is not broken, Washington, D.C. is broken.

Rick Perry

#29. He wanted to "sarge" with me, as he put it. Sarging is pickup artist jargon for going out to meet women; the term evidently has its origin in the name of one of Ross Jeffries's cats, Sargy. An

Neil Strauss