Bill Kristol Quotes

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

I'm a right-wing conservative.

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

I'm not denying I've espoused and promoted conservatism, because conservatism's the alternative. And conservatism works every time it's tried. That's the problem. It really hasn't been tried. Even people claiming to be conservative, when it comes time to actually do it, chicken out.

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

Conservatism in general is bad, and it's racist and sexist.

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

I'm severely conservative.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

I am very much a Republican.

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.