"Let me assure you, my friend: There is nothing in the slightest accidental about the image I project. It is precisely the image I want to...
Deliberate Persona
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William Rusher
Reagan as Fighter
"Like a skillful club boxer, Reagan moved into the attack, landed his punches, backed off, shifted his weight, parried, and attacked again. I came...
Politicians’ Insincerity
"Most politicians … are pretty adept at sensing when to stop riding an issue … When it stops paying dividends, when on straight pleasure-pain...
Presidential Character Rarity
"If this is one of the truest indicia of character—a temperament so balanced and serene that it can almost command its environment—then character is...
Preferring Foreign Policy
"I know very little about economics and dislike what little I know. Why not assign me to talk on some aspect of the Communism question?" Source: If...
Rusher’s Razor on the GOP
"I made up my mind years ago that salvation for America, if it is to come at all, will not take place through the medium of the Republican Party....
Goldwater’s Campaign Messaging
"Goldwater's personal style, while ruggedly honest, was somewhat astringent and doctrinaire. In this connection, he was also badly served by his...
Amoral Political Operator
"He was an interesting man, and a complex man—and not in any sense of the word an evil man. I think he was, however, rather devoid of any moral...
Rockefeller’s Ambition
"Here's a guy born with umpteen million dollars—and as collateral to that, all women fell over backwards at his approach. What the hell do you do to...
Self-Reflection on Arguing
"I am a born interrupter—not, I hasten to say, because I want to be discourteous, but because my mind has raced ahead … to some crushing response...
Liberation through Individualism
"I began doing and saying what I wanted to do and say, and immediately experienced a great sense of liberation." Source: If Not Us, Who? William...
Conservative Gratitude for Reagan
"Conservatives had better be grateful for Ronald Reagan, for my guess is that he is unique. We shall not see his like again." Source: If Not Us,...