A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

I had much more fun criticizing than praising.

Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.