"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...
Preferring Foreign Policy
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William Rusher
Political Hopefulness amid Doubt
"I honestly don't know whether there is still time to turn this country around, but I do know that the man America will elect on November 4th...
The Bureaucracy’s Drift
"I guess it is inevitable that most posts in government will be filled by the type of seaweed that drifts in and out with the tides of politics."...
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...
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...
Reforming Without Experience
"How can you have a reasonable agenda for redesigning the Environmental Protection Agency, when no conservative has ever served there? Reagan has...
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...
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...
Closing Reflections on America
"Happily, I am not ending the column with a gloomy conviction that America is heading to hell in a handbasket. On the contrary ... I think the...
Media’s Reaction to Reagan
"Grudgingly, in partial explanation of their failure to damage Reagan seriously, the media adopted his admirers' enthusiastic description of him as...
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...
Spy Scandal Irony
"General Taylor, we have all enjoyed your witty remarks on the vicissitudes of ‘our party,' and the medal you evidently feel Senator McCarthy has...