There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long as the income of 50 percent of the population is below the median." Mr. Vidal will take the affirmative. M. Stanton Evans More Quotes by M. Stanton Evans More Quotes From M. Stanton Evans A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory. M. Stanton Evans politics care long No matter how bad you think something is, when you look into it, it's always worse. M. Stanton Evans matter looks thinking Once our people get themselves M. Stanton Evans policy position people It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything. M. Stanton Evans accomplishing-anything credit care He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate. M. Stanton Evans debate winning writing On Politics: When our people get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being our people. M. Stanton Evans can-do people In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down. M. Stanton Evans colonies than down new 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. M. Stanton Evans failure political focus evil Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin. M. Stanton Evans control dreams cooperation battle I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts. M. Stanton Evans your you opinion facts A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI. M. Stanton Evans then about soviet july 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. M. Stanton Evans only trouble hot thinking I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate. M. Stanton Evans richard-nixon until never watergate Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good. M. Stanton Evans bad good like sex I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.' M. Stanton Evans man november god fall 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. M. Stanton Evans effort growth political problem I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods. M. Stanton Evans sure agree admire trying When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is. M. Stanton Evans lose you things-happen forget I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that. M. Stanton Evans media time attention book Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does. M. Stanton Evans every everything things investigation
