Quotes About Buckley

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

crouching on his hands and knees, peering through a magnifying glass and pointing out sites where UFOs were going to land.

I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.

It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

I knew Buckley - he was a friend of mine - and Steve Bannon is no William F. Buckley. Buckley marginalized the kooks. Bannon empowered them.

I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.

I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.

Here's one measure of the man and the scope of his achievement: No serious historian will be able to write about 20th-century America without discussing Bill Buckley. Before Buckley, there was no conservative movement. After Buckley, there was Ronald Reagan.

Buckley was not dismissive of this outrage; he simply proceeded as if it were interesting but not really relevant.

Buckley was often a more articulate version of the same deep ugliness and bigotry that is the hallmark of Trumpism.

but the truth is that Trump's racism is a direct descendant of William Buckley's early racism.

I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'

There was a time when the conservative movement was led by the likes of Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol and Bob Bartley, men of ideas who invested the Republican Party with intellectual seriousness.

One might think that someone as smart as Buckley would have the good sense to shut up, but good sense is not something Bill Buckley had in great supply when he entered the army.

Speechwriters are fundamentally Calvinist: They become nervous if their principals exhibit free will and depart from the prepared text.

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

Ao contrário da fatwa proclamada por Khomeini, que condenou à morte Salman Rushdie, a castração corretiva sonhada por Buckley não vinha acompanhada de nenhum incentivo financeiro para possíveis executores. No entanto, foi ditada por um espírito tão exigente quanto o do aiatolá, e em nome de ideais tão elevados quanto os dele.

Buckley called him "Mr. Evil," "a dangerous man," and a "great phony." Buckley deplored the "uncouthness that seems to account for his general popularity.

You can't ground us. We're homeless," Daphne said.

really thats your code name?

Sabrina shook off her surprise and together they took turns kicking the stranger.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson handcuffed us to a radiator!" Sabrina cried.

Puck was a genuine pain in the butt, but he had powers and those powers made him useful.