“I've always rebelled a little when people say, 'My Jewish values lead me to really care about the poor.' I know some Christians who care about the poor, too.” PeopleKnowsLittlesCareChristianValuesPoorWho CaresLeading MeJewish Values Author:William Kristol
“If President [Barack] Obama - President [Donald] Trump shows up with a, you know, cleaver and just says, I can get rid of all these regulations, I can get rid of ObamaCare, no problem at all, then that would be a mistake.” IfsKnowsI CanShowsProblemWould BePresidentMistakeTrumpBarackRegulationNo ProblemObamacarePresident Barack ObamaCleaver Author:William Kristol
“People read the Tribune or the Sun-Times, you know, way back when the Tribune was a right-wing paper.It's always been somewhat that way. We take 10, 20 years in the 50s and 60s as kind of the norm, when there was this sort of bi-partisan parent consensus.” PeopleKnowsWayYearsKindParentSunPaperWingsNormConsensusRight WingBack WhenPartisansWay Back When Author:William Kristol
“There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesDifferentPast Author:William Kristol
“Some journalists just get too wrapped up in daily news cycles and tempests in a teapot that are not going to make any difference. As someone who is older and has been through a few election cycles, maybe this is just being an old fogey, but I think I know what's going to really matter and what's not.” ThinkingKnowsHas BeensMatterDifferencesNewsElectionJournalistCyclesJust BeingTempestTeapotsDaily News Author:William Kristol
“White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.” KnowsProblemWomenWhite 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
“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.” IfsKnowsKindMadeGivenDesignTaxesPercentPaidInvestmentCodeRomney Author:William Kristol
