Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.
Irving KristolThe danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.
Irving KristolSomehow, 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.
Irving KristolA neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.
Irving Kristol