James L. Buckley

“I believe that the federal government is incompetent to do most of the things that it is now trying to do.”

“I don’t believe in a checkbook campaign.”

“The Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was an egregious example of judicial overreach.”

“The first duty of a government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.”

“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.”

“The idea that a congressman can be bought and sold is not an idea that I'm going to legitimize.”

“My own preference is for a private, voluntary system.”