It was two months before congressional Democrats would drop the Clinton-inspired effort at a comprehensive reordering of America's health care, and three months before the stunning Gingrich/Contract with America Republican election victory, and this "seminar by conservative Republicans," as Mr. Buckley describes it, ranges from first principles to the latest legislative battle. RB: "I live in New York City. I live in the headquarters of liberalism. I think the Clinton bill should be named the New York City Liberal Democratic Doctor's Conversion Act." ... AK: "There is only one issue on the table, only one issue that I think goes to everything in our politics, and that issue is the erosion and moral collapse of this country. The moral character of this people is in some areas dead, in other areas dying, and if we don't recover it, the whole system, economically and politically, will collapse." ... WAR: "This may be heresy in a group as conservative as this ... I think we'd better give up the idea that we're going to shrink government back to something that would have looked good in 1890. Gang, we are not going to shrink government. There are a quarter of a billion people in the United States of America; they have a lot of different wishes and desires and impulses and needs. And government is going to be in the picture more than you or I would want it to be." ... ER: "Republicans want to do everything the Democrats do for 80 per cent of the cost, and that's a system that will not work."