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Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
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Tendency
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What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
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Currency
Office
People
Elective
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Votes
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In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Court
Decision
Firsts
Rendering
Speech
Supreme
Supreme Court
Equated
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If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Book
Democrat
Engagement
People
God Good People
God Good Enough
Considered
Assume
Engage
Enough People
Openly
Reprehensible
Rewrite
Rule
Rule Book
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I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Afterlife
Campaigns
Controversy
Educate
Financing
Ongoing
Presidential
Presidential Campaign
Campaign
Current
Debates
Hoped
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The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Campaign Contributions
Campaigns
Concerned
Court
Media
Supreme
Supreme Court
Vote
Campaign
Contributions
Exchange
Involves
Votes
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What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Finance
Campaign Finance
Campaigns
Conservative
Issues
Lines
Sides
Two Sides
Campaign
Debated
Distinguishes
Issue
Liberal
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Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Encouraging
Circumstances
Mean
Office
Probity
Soul
Term
Congressional
Elective
Limitations
Refer
Serve
Souls
Suggest
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Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Congress
Impossible
Members
Temptation
Vote
Yield
Angels
Bend
Legislative
Service
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Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Running
Concern
Difficulty
Resisting
Soul
Temptation
Term
Ultimate
Welfare
Congressional
Favor
Limitations
Proper
Souls
Temptations
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The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Campaigns
Contributing
Court
Exception
Incapable
Presumption
Reasonable
Candidate
However
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Alas
Ambition
Democratic
Inherent
Legislators
Principles
Way
Finding
Principle
Subordinate
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In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Faith
Accountability
Analysis
Breach
Fidelity
Oath
Office
Ultimate
Faith Believe Will
Course
Degree
Escape
Last
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I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Cases
Elected Officials
Honestly
Important
Officials
Overwhelming
Temptation
Conclude
Persuaded
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Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Media
Political
Reluctant
Self
Self Interest
Unfortunately
Further
Political Speech
Public Mind
Restrictions
Succeeded
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They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Different
Educated
Lying
Polls
Principled
Public Interest
Suggesting
Understanding
Willing
Cast
Lies
Votes
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It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Acceptable
Last Year
Perjury
Acts
Constitutional
Safeguard
Serve
Therefore
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Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Expectations
Honor
Implicit
Oath
Promise
Witness
Accountable
Bear
Derives
Expectation
Unfortunately
Manner
Promises
Reminded
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As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.
James L. Buckley / Former United States Senator
Accepted
Appearance
Consequence
Court
First Amendment
Justified
Speech
Amendment
Avoid
Campaign
Constraint
Limit
Ruled
Violated
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