Bill Kristol Quotes

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

If we look conservative, it's because the other guys are so far to the left.

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

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

I am not a centrist.

As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

The left hand of the right wing.

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.

In this country there are two parties: the righteous and the fallacious

In New York, the opposite of a Democrat is not a Republican; it’s a Fascist.

The dilemma of modern progressive politics is that you are always fighting on two fronts: The conservatives on the right, and the conservatives on the left.

This difference between the two parties covers a wide range, and is indicative of the conservative thought of the one and the progressive thought of the other.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

Liberals always blame the other guy.

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.

Bush is no conservative.

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

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