Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.
Irving KristolI regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.
Irving KristolThe problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.
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 Kristol