Bill Kristol Quotes

I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.

We should not just talk about conservative principles, but we should actually advance them.

I put my conservatism up against anyone. I'm a pretty staunch conservative, with pretty rabid ideas about conservative values... Questioning my conservatism doesn't seem like a particularly interesting project or exercise.

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

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.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

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

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.

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

I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in that category.

I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

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.

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

As conservatives, we know our principles, and we also know the best ideas do not always come from Washington.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

To all of you who are Republicans of long standing, I hope you appreciate that I always tried to stand for conservative values.

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

I am a conservative and proud of it.