American - Politician | December 23, 1952 -
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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First impressions matter. Most people don't change their political views radically from the ones they first hold.
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I'm absolutist on Trump. He shouldn't be president. We should limit the damage he can do as president. And we should try as hard as we can to prevent him from being renominated or reelected.
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Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
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Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.
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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.
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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.
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I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.
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All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.
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Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?
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Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
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Bush is no conservative.
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