Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity. Irving Kristol
People need religion. It’s a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. Irving Kristol
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals. Irving Kristol
You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy. Irving Kristol
Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want. Irving Kristol
The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods. Irving Kristol