"Certainly the motive cannot be frugality; Congress is capable of squandering ten times $222 million in a single afternoon. Nor is there even any...
Motives Behind Foreign Aid
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William Rusher
The Party’s Conservative Heart
"Conservatism should be the beating heart of the Republican Party, but the party must also reach out to incorporate people who are not necessarily...
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,...
Cyclical Nature of Politics
"Don't worry; there's a yin and a yang to politics." Source: If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement...
Advice for the Soviet Collapse
"Encourage the ailing Soviet system to (1) sit down, (2) lie down, and (3) die, in that order. It has started to sit down. This is not the time to...
Conflicted Loyalty in Espionage
"Every man feels a natural distaste for exposing others whose crimes, however great, seem after all no greater to him than the crimes of the one...
Buckley’s National Impact
"Bill Buckley's emergence onto the national stage … in the 1950s, and the impact of his striking personality … caused a lesion in the...
Parties as Vote Machines
"Both major parties, as presently constituted, are simply highly efficient vote-gathering machines. It is pointless to upbraid such a machine for...
Communists in U.S. Government
"Certainly it is possible to overstate the role that Communists in government have played in perverting America's policy during the past thirty-five...
Weaknesses of Communism
"because it is based on a fundamentally inadequate and mistaken concept of man's nature, I believe it is doomed to final failure—for the same reason...
Burden on Democratic Voters
"Being a voter these days is no bed of roses; the quality of public debate has declined shockingly since the days of Lincoln and Douglas. Bombarded...
Expertise and Authority
""The world's foremost authority on widgets” or “the world's foremost authority on anything."" Source: If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National...