If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

James L. Buckley Quotes