130 Quotes by William Safire

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'

She would take it and perform a typographical miracle. It was like looking at an E. E. Cummings page.

For the sake of the country, the conservative cause, the Republican party and even his own long-term career -- he ought to resign.

The phrase "New World Order" is Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.