48 Quotes by Bill Kristol

The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.

I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

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.

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.

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

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

Bush is no conservative.

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

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.