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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

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From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.

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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'

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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: July 20th, 1934

Died: March 3rd, 2015

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