"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...
Closing Reflections on America
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Quotes
An extensive archive of Bill Rusher’s quotes. The section is organized thematically, enabling readers to filter his thought by different themes that he discussed over the years.
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...
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...
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...
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."...
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...
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...
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 …...
Aftermath of Political Defeat
"For me personally, the most painful … aspect of the immediately ensuing weeks was a fair amount of good-natured ribbing by conservative friends …...
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...