Irving Kristol Quotes

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

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.