"For me personally, the most painful … aspect of the immediately ensuing weeks was a fair amount of good-natured ribbing by conservative friends …...
Aftermath of Political Defeat
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William Rusher
Roy Cohn’s Alienation
"Few appointments were ever better calculated to arouse resentment on all sides. Everybody over 26 resented Cohn's youth. Everybody less clever …...
Personal Dislike of Exercise
"Exercising may make your day; it would assuredly ruin mine." Source: If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Motives Behind Foreign Aid
"Certainly the motive cannot be frugality; Congress is capable of squandering ten times $222 million in a single afternoon. Nor is there even any...
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...
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...
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...