Weyrich Quotes

#1. I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.

Dixie Lee Ray

#2. Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

Paul Weyrich

#3. What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

Paul Weyrich

#4. Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

Paul Weyrich

#5. In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.

Paul Weyrich

#6. How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.

Paul Weyrich

#7. So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

Paul Weyrich

#8. If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.

Paul Weyrich

#9. Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

Paul Weyrich

#10. Politicians often lie.

Paul Weyrich

#11. CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

Paul Weyrich

#12. We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.

Paul Weyrich

#13. Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

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#14. It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

Paul Weyrich

#15. The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.

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#16. The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

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#17. Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.

Paul Weyrich

#18. Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.

Paul Weyrich

#19. Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

Paul Weyrich

#20. Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

Paul Weyrich

#21. The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

Paul Weyrich

#22. For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

Paul Weyrich

#23. We are different from previous generations of conservatives ... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.

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#24. Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

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#25. Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.

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#26. If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.

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#27. Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

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#28. Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins ... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.

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#29. Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.

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#30. The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

Paul Weyrich

#31. Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.

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#32. The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

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#33. Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

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#34. Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.

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#35. Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

Paul Weyrich

#36. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote ... As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

Paul Weyrich

#37. Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

Paul Weyrich

#38. Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

Paul Weyrich

#39. If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It's time for the Christians in this country to put a stop to this kind of nonsense. A Christian recruiting strike will compel the Army to think seriously about what it is doing.

Paul Weyrich

#40. I don't want everybody to vote

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#41. Dreher is correct in saying that traditionalist conservatives also have been conservationists ... I think most conservatives should agree that this is an area we need to think more about.

Paul Weyrich

#42. Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.

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#43. I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not exist to serve the economy, but the economy exists to serve man ... A society built on consumerism must break down eventually for the same reason socialism did'

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#44. Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.

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#45. The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

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#46. But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

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#47. Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.

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#48. Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.

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