William Kristol Quotes - Page 2

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• Maybe one thing that has happened is that the claims of non-partisanship of the mainstream media have been a little bit exploded. Mostly I'd say what, if anything has caused the change, are just the obvious technological changes - proliferation of easier access to getting your opinions out and the proliferation of media.

  William Kristol

  Media, Technological Change, What If

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• 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.

  William Kristol

  Design, Kind, Investment

  "Bill Kristol: Mitt Romney’s Low Tax Rate Is ‘Kinda Weird’" by Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Bush is no conservative.

  William Kristol

  Conservative

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• If Donald Trump behaves well, personally, and morally - I agree with Van [Jones] on this - if he distances - if he disassociates himself from forces that he unfortunately coddled and even fostered a little in this campaign, if he is responsible about the way in which he goes about his policy, initiatives on immigration and ObamaCare, trade and other areas, he has a huge opportunity, because the truth is that a lot of this stuff isn't that - there is a lot that can be done.

  William Kristol

  Distance, Opportunity, Obamacare

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think the whole dynamic is different. Whereas in [Barack] Obama's case, even though there was no incumbent, he was able to run against eight years of Bush-Cheney and a Republican Congress, and everyone was tired of everything. He was able to benefit from that.

  William Kristol

  Running, Tired, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical.

  William Kristol

  Party, Political, Complicated

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• 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.

  William Kristol

  Real, Years, World

  "Will Obama Save Liberalism?". www.nytimes.com. January 25, 2009.

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• Republican Congressmen and senators will be in a very interesting place, where they have to support the president-elect - president - what will be President [Donald] Trump when they - when they agree with him, try to guide him in certain ways, I think oppose him on some things.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Interesting, Support

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It will be an unusual dynamic [in Congress]. It won't be like the rallying behind President [Barack] Obama in 2009 or behind President [George W.] Bush, even at the beginning of his presidency, or even [Bill] Clinton in '93, when he got his budget through on a partisan vote.

  William Kristol

  President, Bills, Vote

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are since they're on the air, and there are a couple hundred thousand people reading The Weekly Standard online, and that's great too, but most Americans aren't engaged that intensely, and are much less partisan.

  William Kristol

  Couple, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• The ObamaCare premiums, the numbers started moving away from Hillary Clinton he moment there was a problem with.

  William Kristol

  Moving, Obamacare, Numbers

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 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.

  William Kristol

  Obamacare, Issues, Important

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Look, at actual Republican and conservative think-tank proposals to replace ObamaCare all have the pre-existing condition provision in, done somewhat differently from [Barack] President Obama's.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Obamacare, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• What's more important than the media, there's this thing called ObamaCare, which was President Obama's signature domestic achievement. It won Republicans the House in 2014 - 2010. It won Republicans the Senate in 2014.

  William Kristol

  Media, Obamacare, House

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Donald Trump beat Jeb Bush and beat Hillary Clinton. And when everyone thinks of Donald Trump that's pretty impressive.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Clinton, Beats

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• I was "Never Trump." But it turned out never republican was really the theme of this election.

  William Kristol

  Election, Republican, Trump

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• It's been an unusual election [2016].

  William Kristol

  Election, Unusual

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• There are a few things [Donald Trump] has been pretty clear he'll do. A big infrastructure program that he'll get bipartisan support for.

  William Kristol

  Support, Program, Bigs

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• [Donald Trump] will try to renegotiate the trade deals a little bit.

  William Kristol

  Trying, Littles, Trump

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think [Donald Trump] will do something on immigration.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Immigration, Trump

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• I don't really believe that people read just the stuff they agree with.

  William Kristol

  Believe, People, Stuff

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• 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.

  William Kristol

  Years, Wings, People

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• 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.

  William Kristol

  College, Talking, Issues

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• You all would be really shocked, if you were dropped back down into when I went to college, by the narrowness of the opinions you could get just by reading newspapers and magazines and watching TV.

  William Kristol

  Reading, College, Watching Tv

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I am on the whole a defender of the current, despite being a conservative. I mean, I think things are better than when I was younger.

  William Kristol

  Mean, Thinking, Conservative

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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