Neoconservative Quotes

[A neoconservative is] a liberal who has been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who got mugged by reality but has not pressed charges. (Irving Kristol)
Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.'
Joe Klein
Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.
Ilana Mercer
I am not a neoconservative.
John R. Bolton
THE TERM (Sustainability) HAS BECOME so widely used that it is in danger of meaning nothing. It has been applied to all manner of activities in an effort to give those activities the gloss of moral imperative, the cachet of environmental enlightenment. "Sustainable” has been used variously to mean "politically feasible,” "economically feasible,” "not part of a pyramid or bubble,” "socially enlightened,” "consistent with neoconservative small-government dogma,” "consistent with liberal principles of justice and fairness,” "morally desirable,” and, at its most diffuse, "sensibly far-sighted.”.
Eric Zencey
In adding Iran to the travel ban, President Trump is clearly appeasing the neoconservative snakes slithering around his administration. They're fixing for a fight with Iran, stupidly collapsing the distinction between the Iranian State (sponsor of terrorism), and the Iranian people (who're not the reason the Eiffel Tower is being walled-off by bullet-proof glass).
Ilana Mercer
Donald Trump's political rivals look at the price exacted by a Muslim like Syed Farouk and his bride in the aggregate. To a politician, 14 lives in 322 million is a small price to pay for 'our freedoms.' Fourteen dead in San Bernardino is not a steep price to pay for unfettered immigration from Islamic countries, peddled politically as 'our values,' 'our tolerance,' 'our greatness.' This callous calculus is second nature to neoconservative politicians like Lindsey Graham or Darth Vader Cheney. Not to Trump.
Ilana Mercer