William Kristol
He has a competent person, I think who will be confirmed as HHS secretary, Congressman Tom Price.Collection: Thinking
Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.Collection: Party
I don't think you want political parties that are entirely driven by some extremely doctrinal ideology.Collection: Party
[Donald ] Trump is more important than all of us. He's more important than the media.Collection: Media
Maybe one thing that has happened is that the claims of non-partisanship of the mainstream media have been a little bit exploded. Mostly I'd say what, if anything has caused the change, are just the obvious technological changes - proliferation of easier access to getting your opinions out and the proliferation of media.Collection: Media
If Donald Trump behaves well, personally, and morally - I agree with Van [Jones] on this - if he distances - if he disassociates himself from forces that he unfortunately coddled and even fostered a little in this campaign, if he is responsible about the way in which he goes about his policy, initiatives on immigration and ObamaCare, trade and other areas, he has a huge opportunity, because the truth is that a lot of this stuff isn't that - there is a lot that can be done.Collection: Distance
I think the whole dynamic is different. Whereas in [Barack] Obama's case, even though there was no incumbent, he was able to run against eight years of Bush-Cheney and a Republican Congress, and everyone was tired of everything. He was able to benefit from that.Collection: Running
Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical.Collection: Party
Republican Congressmen and senators will be in a very interesting place, where they have to support the president-elect - president - what will be President [Donald] Trump when they - when they agree with him, try to guide him in certain ways, I think oppose him on some things.Collection: Thinking
It will be an unusual dynamic [in Congress]. It won't be like the rallying behind President [Barack] Obama in 2009 or behind President [George W.] Bush, even at the beginning of his presidency, or even [Bill] Clinton in '93, when he got his budget through on a partisan vote.Collection: President
I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are since they're on the air, and there are a couple hundred thousand people reading The Weekly Standard online, and that's great too, but most Americans aren't engaged that intensely, and are much less partisan.Collection: Couple
The ObamaCare premiums, the numbers started moving away from Hillary Clinton he moment there was a problem with.Collection: Moving
If you look at the polls, for all the talk about immigration and even trade, ObamaCare was an extremely important issue for Trump voters in 2016.Collection: Obamacare
Look, at actual Republican and conservative think-tank proposals to replace ObamaCare all have the pre-existing condition provision in, done somewhat differently from [Barack] President Obama's.Collection: Thinking
What's more important than the media, there's this thing called ObamaCare, which was President Obama's signature domestic achievement. It won Republicans the House in 2014 - 2010. It won Republicans the Senate in 2014.Collection: Media
Donald Trump beat Jeb Bush and beat Hillary Clinton. And when everyone thinks of Donald Trump that's pretty impressive.Collection: Thinking
I was "Never Trump." But it turned out never republican was really the theme of this election.Collection: Election
It's been an unusual election [2016].Collection: Election
There are a few things [Donald Trump] has been pretty clear he'll do. A big infrastructure program that he'll get bipartisan support for.Collection: Support
[Donald Trump] will try to renegotiate the trade deals a little bit.Collection: Trying
I think [Donald Trump] will do something on immigration.Collection: Thinking
I don't really believe that people read just the stuff they agree with.Collection: Believe
People read the Tribune or the Sun-Times, you know, way back when the Tribune was a right-wing paper.It's always been somewhat that way. We take 10, 20 years in the 50s and 60s as kind of the norm, when there was this sort of bi-partisan parent consensus.Collection: Years
My sense from talking to college students is that you have a healthier sense of the diversity of opinions or arguments or analysis about issues. In our day it was just sort of, "Well gee, this is what the news says so that's the way it is." It didn't really get challenged that much.Collection: College
You all would be really shocked, if you were dropped back down into when I went to college, by the narrowness of the opinions you could get just by reading newspapers and magazines and watching TV.Collection: Reading
I am on the whole a defender of the current, despite being a conservative. I mean, I think things are better than when I was younger.Collection: Mean