The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite one and you know you're right.