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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

From M. Stanton Evans

Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

From M. Stanton Evans

Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.

From M. Stanton Evans

I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

From M. Stanton Evans

As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

From M. Stanton Evans

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

From M. Stanton Evans

Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

From M. Stanton Evans

I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'

From M. Stanton Evans

I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.

From M. Stanton Evans

I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.

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