William F. Buckley: Self

Quotes 

• William F. Buckley : Whatever you say about the United States, we are still making some kind of an effort to keep a few people free. You'd last ten seconds in the Soviet society - and, uh, it makes a difference to...

  Johnny Carson : With the communists.

  William F. Buckley : It makes a difference to, uh, a lot of us that you have lasted fifteen years.

• William F. Buckley : E.M. Forster wrote a lot of interesting books, and said one really dumb thing. Uh, his dumb thing was, "I hope that if somebody were to give me the alternative of, uh, voting for my friends or for my country, I would vote for my friends." Well, in the first place, the probability is that even *his* friends were, uh, members of his own country.

• William F. Buckley : The notion that we can't ask, uh, people who throw discuses to join us in the common enterprise is, I think, recognized by the American people as intuitively incorrect. And I think it is remarkable that people who have made as many sacrifices as this - these Olympic, uh, athletes have made - uh, remarkable that the majority of them appear to be in favor of, uh, boycotting the Moscow Olympics.

• William F. Buckley : The Russian leaders don't specialize in explaining things to the people.