Bill Kristol Quotes

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.

I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

I am not a centrist.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

I'm always flattered when people on the far Left manufacture a new version of being 'offended.' They can be quite creative in finding something that hurts their feelings.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.