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• 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.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Differences, News

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• For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of American history. Think of Joseph McCarthy. Think of the New Left. Think of [George] McGovern. Think of [Ronald] Reagan. Think of George Wallace. We've had an awful lot of real extremism on both wings.

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  Real, Thinking, Wings

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• 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.

  William Kristol

  Obamacare, Differences, Issues

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• If you look at the polls - the conservatives are fine.I think there will be a fair amount of enthusiasm, or at least motivation. They very much want to remove President [Barack] Obama.

  William Kristol

  Motivation, Thinking, President

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• Obviously I think politics is interesting and important and educational.

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  Educational, Thinking, Interesting

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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.

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  Years, Wings, People

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• First of all, legally, it's hard to do these things[ get rid of ObamaCare]. Donald Trump needs a lot of competent people.

  William Kristol

  Obamacare, People, Needs

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

  William Kristol

  Trying, Littles, Trump

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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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• 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

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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.

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  President, Bills, Vote

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

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  Election, Unusual

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

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  Election, Republican, Trump

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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.

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  Media, Obamacare, House

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Obamacare, President

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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

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

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  Moving, Obamacare, Numbers

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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.

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  Obamacare, Issues, Important

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

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Immigration, Trump

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• I still would say generally that more people have access [to] and take advantage of more diversity of opinion than was once .

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  People, Diversity, Opinion

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

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  Believe, People, Stuff

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• I like [ Rick] Santorum personally and respect him, but you wouldn't say that he was really that strong of an opponent. At the end of the day it wasn't like [Ronald] Reagan running against [George] Bush, or [George W.] Bush against [John] McCain, even. It's sort of surprising that Romney had as much trouble as he did, and I think it shows a weakness in appeal to those voters.

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  Running, Strong, Thinking

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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

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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.

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  College, Talking, Issues

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• Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.

  William Kristol

  Three, Radio, Tvs

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