“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”

“A second marked characteristic of the Liberal in debate with the conservative is the tacit premise that debateis ridiculous....Many people shrink from arguments over facts because facts are tedious...”

“For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.”

“I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been critically influenced in one's thinking by a teacher, or a faculty, or a book; but the accent these d...”

“Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.”

“[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom."-William F Buckley”

“Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.”

“We want to believe something very similar about racism and accusations of racism. If we can prove that a particular allegation of racism is unfounded or untrue, we can all breathe a collective sigh...”

“There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.”

“WLs [White Liberals] think all the worlds problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We dont believe that. Theres a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. Its what separates u...”

“White Americans find it as difficult as white people elsewhere do to divest themselves of the notion that they are in possession of some intrinsic value that black people need, or want. And this as...”

“Its often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isnt it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist.”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”