Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere.
Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review, and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind.
If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.
You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.
We view our atomic arsenal as proudly and as devotedly as any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock hanging over the mantel as his children slept, and dreamed.
The police can’t use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.
Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them.
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.
Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York’s mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.
History is but the polemics of the victor.
Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.
Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith.
Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.
Boredom is the deadliest poison.
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
Government can’t do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.
One doesn’t read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.