Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually in...
BILL KRISTOL Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of var...
BILL KRISTOL Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
BILL KRISTOL Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He ...
BILL KRISTOL The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, ...
BILL KRISTOL Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
BILL KRISTOL Would any of [the president's] aides have the nerve to explain to the president that a Gonzales nomi...
BILL KRISTOL I think she should consider it. I think her nomination is a mistake. She doesn't have the intellectu...
BILL KRISTOL Actually, we have a pretty terrific Army.
BILL KRISTOL Surely the United States should do what it can to prevent dictators elsewhere from inferring that re...
BILL KRISTOL For one thing, Democrats can explain that resolutions of censure have typically been reserved for et...
BILL KRISTOL With this action, in one fell swoop, the president deprived himself and his supporters of the easies...
BILL KRISTOL [Even some of President George W Bush's staunch supporters are worried.] He is a strong President bu...
BILL KRISTOL The president knows we have to win this war. If some of his subordinates are trying to find ways to ...
BILL KRISTOL With this action, in one fell swoop, the president deprived himself and his supporters of the easies...
BILL KRISTOL I don't think this is serious. Most conservatives are very pleased. . . . He has a long record, and ...
BILL KRISTOL The Defense Department apparently refused a CIA request to launch an attack on a Syrian terror-spons...
BILL KRISTOL For that matter, is the Saudi government doing as much as it can to stop its young men from trooping...
BILL KRISTOL Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
BILL KRISTOL If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even w...
BILL KRISTOL All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.
BILL KRISTOL If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency wi...
BILL KRISTOL He's always been—weaker is not quite fair, but he's always been a less powerful chief of staff tha...
BILL KRISTOL Surely this is a pick from weakness. ... What are the prospects for holding solid GOP majorities in ...
BILL KRISTOL It looks like he capitulated.
BILL KRISTOL In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any gene...
BILL KRISTOL I think it was courageous,
BILL KRISTOL I believe, if I had to predict - and I don't know more about this than anybody else reading the pape...
BILL KRISTOL Because you don't judge with your heart, David, and his record is a good record because he nominated...
BILL KRISTOL Bush is no conservative.
BILL KRISTOL If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations ...
BILL KRISTOL Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisivel...
BILL KRISTOL There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. C...
BILL KRISTOL Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court...
BILL KRISTOL I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid mo...
BILL KRISTOL Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their...
BILL KRISTOL Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to '...
BILL KRISTOL While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls ...
BILL KRISTOL People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its...
IRVING KRISTOL Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not s...
IRVING KRISTOL Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.
WILLIAM KRISTOL You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very...
IRVING KRISTOL Would any of his aides have the nerve to tell him that as Supreme Court jurists go, Gonzales would b...
WILLIAM KRISTOL This is a moment of truth in the in the global struggle against Islamic extremism.
WILLIAM KRISTOL the future of American jurisprudence.
WILLIAM KRISTOL The White House has now gotten itself in the worst of all possible worlds. She's a stealth candidate...
WILLIAM KRISTOL No one has anything against her. But the idea that one is supposed to sacrifice both intellectual di...
WILLIAM KRISTOL I hope she withdraws (her nomination), and I remain skeptical that she will be confirmed,
WILLIAM KRISTOL I'll be surprised if we actually end up with hearings in two weeks. There's so little enthusiasm for...
WILLIAM KRISTOL Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want
IRVING KRISTOL People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its pla...
IRVING KRISTOL The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a colli...
IRVING KRISTOL If you're a conservative, the strongest argument for her is, 'Trust Bush; he knows what he's doing.'...
WILLIAM KRISTOL For the great majority of voters, it's one team, and if Clinton's popular, Gore's popular; if Clinto...
WILLIAM KRISTOL The Neoconservative Persuasion
IRVING KRISTOL When someone wins, and someone is inaugurated, he becomes president, events happen . . . and people ...
WILLIAM KRISTOL [Friends describe Libby as engaging and unfailingly polite; it is his habit to stand when a dining p...
WILLIAM KRISTOL Oh, God. . . . It's ludicrous. He should remember it's the party of Lincoln.
WILLIAM KRISTOL The more one learns about him, ... one is surprised that he's in that job in the first place.
WILLIAM KRISTOL I'm disappointed, depressed and demoralized.
WILLIAM KRISTOL Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.
WILLIAM KRISTOL Among conservatives there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for...
WILLIAM KRISTOL They really are acting out of patriotism. This is not fun for them. They're reluctant to step forwar...
WILLIAM KRISTOL No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
IRVING KRISTOL I believe ... that both Libby and Rove will be indicted.
WILLIAM KRISTOL For me, I think people should be held accountable for what they put on the air or in print.
WILLIAM KRISTOL Would any of his aides have the nerve to tell him that as Supreme Court jurists go, Gonzales would b...
WILLIAM KRISTOL Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno...
BILL MAHER No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri...
BILL MURRAY President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a ...
BILL O'REILLY Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out ...
BILL VIOLA When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSON Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
BILL WATTERSON God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that...
BILL WATTERSON There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
BILL WATTERSON We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves an...
BILL WATTERSON From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's differ...
BILL WATTERSON The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't wa...
BILL WATTERSON The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a...
BILL WATTERSON Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSON Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
BILL WATTERSON If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
BILL WATTERSON It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
BILL COPELAND Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.
BILL RANCIC Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i...
BILL GATES The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w...
BILL GATES My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ...
BILL GATES Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ...
BILL GATES The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
BILL GATES The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
BILL GATES People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision...
BILL GATES In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
BILL GATES In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES I think there will be PCs at every price point.
BILL GATES I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu...
BILL GATES The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
BILL GATES Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ...
BILL GATES At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&...
BILL GATES I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl...
BILL GATES Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t...
BILL GATES To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k...
BILL GATES I'm a geek.
BILL GATES I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
BILL GATES If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a...
BILL GATES Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles yo...
BILL GOLDBERG As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
BILL GATES Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and...
BILL GATES Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
BILL GATES If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
BILL GATES Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
BILL GATES We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
BILL GATES In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his ho...
BILL GATES The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one o...
BILL GATES This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...
BILL GATES The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p...
BILL GATES Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
BILL GATES Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
BILL GATES For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made ...
BILL GATES In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...
BILL GATES Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
BILL GATES People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f...
BILL GATES By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
BILL GATES Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
BILL GATES Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
BILL GATES I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to...
BILL GATES Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
BILL GATES Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is...
BILL PASCRELL I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or e...
BILL BRYSON Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals ...
BILL FLORES Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
BILL COSBY I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
BILL WATTERSON There's a lot of things I believe in this world. I believe in God, I believe in the United State...
BILL ENGVALL People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what&...
BILL COSBY If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them an...
BILL COSBY I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not ...
BILL COSBY There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.
BILL COSBY When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.
BILL COSBY If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what ...
BILL COSBY Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
BILL COSBY Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituari...
BILL COSBY Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of yo...
BILL COSBY Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
BILL COSBY Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: e...
BILL COSBY Gray hair is God's graffiti.
BILL COSBY A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
BILL COSBY If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. I...
BILL COSBY By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America d...
BILL COSBY The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
BILL COSBY Anytime I get down to Miami, it's a wonderful thing.
BILL GOLDBERG I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture ...
BILL ATKINSON As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories f...
BILL GOLDBERG Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
BILL MURRAY If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you'...
BILL HICKS I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, b...
BILL BURR There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
BILL GATES The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
BILL COPELAND I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave th...
BILL COSBY A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.
BILL TOOMEY Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disrega...
BILL FLORES One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are...
BILL MURRAY Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't transla...
BILL EVANS I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years ol...
BILL MUMY I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no ma...
BILL PARCELLS I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is...
BILL GATES People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once the...
BILL BRYSON The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence brief...
BILL MAHER William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was...
BILL DEDMAN The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Re...
BILL ALEXANDER The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports ...
BILL ALEXANDER Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses th...
BILL WALTON Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, h...
BILL WALTON The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people t...
BILL WALTON Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
BILL WHEELER If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
BILL WATTERSON Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
BILL WATTERSON