William Rusher, Author at Bill Rusher Centennial

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...

Damaging Political Personalities

by William Rusher

"in theory you had to ask their permission to set foot there, and I didn't think they had the right to grant permission. So I would just wait until...

Nixon’s Political Dilemma

by William Rusher

"It is a fact of human psychology that there are types of personalities simply incapable of participating in a collective effort, especially if that...

Preferring Foreign Policy

by William Rusher

"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

by William Rusher

"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....

Intellectual Discomfort and Thinking

by William Rusher

"I recently read … a little homily to the effect that, if a person makes us think we're thinking, we love him; but if he makes us think, we hate...

Accusing Opponents on TV

by William Rusher

"I'll make a little date with you, Mr. Sorensen … we'll come back on this program and hear where and when National Review advocated racism, and...

Presidential Character Rarity

by William Rusher

"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...