William F. Buckley Jr. Quotes
Too many people are voting.
William F. Buckley Jr., Political Columnist and Author, Conservative party candidate for New York Governor, Interview, Playboy, May 1970
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Misattributed. Statement was written by a humor writer to sound like Dan Quayle but wasn’t actually stated by him.
Opposing national attempts to give Blacks the vote in the South:
William Frank Buckley Jr. was an American public intellectual and conservative author and commentator. In 1955, Buckley founded National Review, a magazine that stimulated the conservative movement in the late-20th century United States. Buckley hosted 1,429 episodes of the public affairs television show Firing Line (1966–1999), the longest-running public affairs show in American television history with a single host, where he became known for his distinctive Mid-Atlantic idiolect and wide vocabulary.