Quotes James L. Buckley

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaig...

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the ...

I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the ov...

I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates m...

I suspect there are few positions in public life in which it...

If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered re...

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equ...

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fide...

It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard...

Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God ...

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a...

One camp accepts the Court's limits on contributions but urg...

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candida...

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Su...

They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on a...

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democrat...

Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of enco...

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that ...

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to ...

What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just abou...

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corru...