“If you look at the polls, for all the talk about immigration and even trade, ObamaCare was an extremely important issue for Trump voters in 2016.” IfsLooksImportantIssuesTrumpTradeImmigrationVotersPollsObamacareImportant Issues Author:William Kristol
“My sense from talking to college students is that you have a healthier sense of the diversity of opinions or arguments or analysis about issues. In our day it was just sort of, "Well gee, this is what the news says so that's the way it is." It didn't really get challenged that much.” WayWellsTalkingOpinionIssuesStudentsCollegeDiversityNewsArgumentAnalysisCollege Students Author:William Kristol
“I think reading intelligent expressions of different points of view is a good thing, and there is a way in which being in academia in a classroom at the University probably gives you, can give you an academic view of things, and reading actual real time debates about what should we do in Syria or the Buffett rule, budget issues...gives you a kind of sense that's hard to get in a classroom.” ThinkingWayGivingShouldKindDifferentRealHardReadingViewsIssuesExpressionIntelligentGood ThingsUniversityPoint Of ViewDebateBudgetsAcademicClassroomSyriaAcademiaDifferent Points Of ViewBuffett Author:William Kristol
“At the end of the day,[Mitt] Romney was pro-life, but [Rick] Santorum was more fervently pro-life, and had been for longer. They're all going to repeal Obamacare, but Romney has once endorsed something like it. In the old days, there really were differences on fundamental issues, even on foreign policy, [for which] [Newt] Gingrich, Romney, and Santorum were pretty similar.” EndsDifferencesIssuesPolicyFundamentalsThe End Of The DayForeign PolicyRomneyObamacareOld DaysPro LifeNewts Author:William Kristol
“And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.” ThinkingKnowsWantKindAmericaCertainIssuesAmountEvidenceIraqPopsIslamicRegimesSecularSociologyFundamentalistShia Author:William Kristol
“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.” Has BeensImportantIssuesElectionGood ThingsVariousConservatismStripesImportant IssuesAscendancy Author:William Kristol
