William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
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Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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In every movie I do have a dialogue.
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There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.
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People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
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Every voting choice you exercise ought to be for the candidate, platform, party, or policy that will best represent the values of the kingdom of God.
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I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time.
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I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.
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A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.
