Pat Buchanan Quotations

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

Neither Beltway party is going to drain this swamp, because to them it is not a swamp at all, but a projected wetland and their natural habitat,

Mr. Bush is even in favor of expanding our Department of Education,

On an intellectual level, it stayed up on that level, ... It didn't get down to anything grisly, so I was delighted.

I feel like I'm walking up and down the sidelines here and the Super Bowl is going on out there. I would like to get in the game.

For years, my friends, we have all heard that familiar taunt, 'Don't worry about them; they have nowhere else to go.' Well, guess what? We have somewhere else to go. At long last, we have a home of our own,

Bush has us back on the team, ready to cheer for him unreservedly.

her qualifications for the Supreme Court are nonexistent.

Piece by piece, job by job, factory by factory, (American industry) is being carted off to foreign soil,

Pat, whatever we do we have to get rid of Gore. So, we're going to have to vote for Bush to get rid of him.

Pat will have certification from the duly elected party chairman and treasurer that the FEC recognizes. That's that. The money will come quick and if it doesn't, we'll just pop it in straight into federal court. It will move very fast and there will be no bumps in the road.

It is dangerous to be America's enemy, but fatal to be America's friend.

I think some of the rhetoric against the president was over the top.

I think that policy of imposing ruthless sanctions on the primary victims which are the old, the poor and the very young is an immoral policy and it shames us as a great nation and a great people,

It is our calling to recapture the lost independence and sovereignty of our republic, to clean up all that pollutes our culture, and to heal the soul of America,

I think you'll see, just by yourselves, taking a look at the energy and fire and the numbers here, this nomination belongs to us,

I would like to see the nomination withdrawn. If I were in the Senate today I would vote against it. My guess is, she will not be confirmed, and she will be withdrawn.

Unless you are willing to change that Supreme Court and make it a pro-life constitutionalist court, your position is fraudulent and it is hollow and it is shallow,

We are the candidate. We're going to get the money.

What we need (are) leaders who have the convictions of the folks back at the grass-roots (level) who want to fight and who are willing to go down to defeat if necessary for things they believe in.

We want to build and grow the Reform Party. Ross, instead of fighting us and opposing us, come on and help us.

We worked very closely with the nominating committee ... We followed exactly their instructions,

The debate system is set up to keep me out of the debates,

We start building this party into the teens in the polls, then we get in that debate with Albert and with W.

Bill Clinton and Al Gore represent the most pro-lesbian and pro-gay ticket in history.

was an opportunity to get our message out and de-demonize ourselves.

Twenty-five hundred is a terrible tragedy; Auschwitz it is not.

When you face your maker, you're going to have to answer a number of questions. And he's not going to ask you whether or not (you) supported a tax cut, ... But he's going to say, 'When this great thing, evil thing was going on, did you speak out against it or did you not?'

Well, if there's poison in the beer, you shut down St. Patty's day,

We'll keep your goods out unless you let our goods in.

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

The reason we believe we can do well in debates is my belief that we have a vision for this country,

Do you want to have a country or not? ... I question the patriotism of people who say we ought to just throw open our borders.

The Mississippi River is like immigration--it's enormously nourishing . . . but if it floods its banks, it can become a problem. And that is what's happened here.

American's jobs are being taken by illegal immigrants. They don't deserve it and shouldn't get the benefits of citizens.

programmed and scripted to stay away from controversy.

Sanctions have become a way for the United States to vent its anger on the cheap without risking the lives of the armed forces,

There's something that unites us all. It's the belief that citizens of the United States are citizens first before they're consumers and there are values higher than money.

There's no way this woman is qualified for the United States Supreme Court,

The only thing they have got is about eight or 10 people in positions of power and influence who are former Perot folks who simply want to derail our nomination, ... Fox News Sunday.

to reshape our party into the natural home for working men and women in the middle class of this country and to reclaim .... the destiny of our republic from an administration that has squandered our inheritance and soiled its place in history.

I'm not sure the President wants to see Roe v. Wade overturned, ... wants to see the decision returned to the people of the United States.

If she had not been female and not been the president's friend, she would not have one chance in a thousand of being nominated to that court,

If you get into the debates in a free-wheeling forum with Mr. Gore -- who I think the country doesn't want but he's stronger than you think -- and Mr. Bush -- who is going to have a tough year -- and we're in three debates together, I think I can win the presidency.

not in the best interest of the party to support her for chair.

At the same time, I don't believe the president and Mr. Gore ought to exploit these tragedies every time they do to run around and demonize folks who are members of the NRA who are good American citizens.

In the long run, one of the great threats to this country is its tendency to dissolve along the lines of race, ethnicity and language,

become two wings of the same bird of prey.

After seven years it's clear the Clinton Administration has yet to find the right formula of dealing with rogue nations, ... Sanctions have become the feel-good policy of the self-righteous.

It is time to call down the curtain on the sorry soap opera in the White House and restore dignity to the national stage,

It's like Coke and Pepsi saying no other soft drink can enter the market unless they meet a certain criteria. That's preposterous,

It is time to say 'yes' to Europe, time to let go, as doting parents whose children have reached maturity must let go. Indeed, let us accelerate the day of Europe's reclaiming its full independence by setting a date certain for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops.

You don't get up in the polls unless you get on the debates, and you don't get on the debates unless you go up in the polls,

They are doing jobs most Americans won't do.

We will no longer squander the blood of our soldiers fighting other countries' wars or the wealth of our people paying other countries' bills.

we will not accept one-sided trade deals with Beijing, where we buy 40 percent of their exports and they buy 1 percent of ours.

I am not sure the president of the United States wants to see Roe v. Wade overturned,

If I am elected America's trade and foreign policies will no longer be up for bid at White House coffees and foreign agents of influence will no longer be sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom. They won't get past the police guards at the White House gate,

Gov. Ventura, if he got into the race, would be a formidable candidate for that nomination. But if I get into the race for the Reform Party nomination, you've got to put somebody up there to beat me,

The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.

[The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God.

Our servants (weaker nations) are becoming our masters. You have my word: As long as there is life in me, I will spend the rest of my days fighting to restore the lost sovereignty of the United States...

Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.

Let it be said: Loyalty to the New World Order is disloyalty to the Republic

The US has unthinkingly embarked upon a neoimperial policy that must involve us in virtually every great war of the coming century-and wars are the death of republics. If we continue on this course of reflexive interventions, enemies will one day answer our power with the weapon of the weak-terror, and eventually cataclysmic terrorism on US soil.

On immigration policy, I believe we ought to call an immediate halt, stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration back to about 250,000 to 300,000, to more easily assimilate the Americans who've come here in the last 30 years.

Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of World Government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright shining lie.

The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an assault on the Second Amendment right of American gunowners to keep and bear arms.

We need to do more than win an election or win the House or win the presidency, my friends: we need to make this beloved country of ours God's country once again.

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first.

The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.

If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built. No nation has ever undergone so radical a demographic transformation and survived.

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

Blacks Bought A Lot Of Propaganda On The Liberal Plantation.

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.

If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.

America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and conservatives are being played for suckers.

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'

The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

The question we Americans need to address, before it is answered for us, is: Does this First World nation wish to become a Third World country? Because that is our destiny if we do not build a sea wall against the waves of immigration rolling over our shores...Who speaks for the Euro-Americans, who founded the USA?...Is it not time to take back America?

We're going to capture the lost sovereignty of our country... And when we get there, my friends, we will only be obedient to one sovereign America, and that is the sovereign of God Himself and His laws.

Either we abandon the utopian globalism of open borders and 'ally-ally-in-free' immigration or we lose the war on terrorism and our freedoms with it.

Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.

I've gotten balanced coverage and broad coverage - all we could have asked. ... For heaven sakes, we kid about the liberal media, but every republican on earth does that.

On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.

Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.

If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?