William Safire Quotes

Never assume the obvious is true.

Here’s my reply to their Kulturkampf: For exactly 30 years, I have been supported handsomely for disagreeing with The Times’s editorial page, which is dovish on defense, leftist on economics and (with the exception of civil liberties) resolutely wrongheaded. Never have I been silenced, and conservative thinkers have an ever-fairer shake on the Op-Ed page. […]

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care.