Top 70 Pat Buchanan Quotes

How does the GOP repeal and replace Obamacare without cutting the benefits upon which millions of Americans have come to rely?

During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.

The Democrats‘ drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court – a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.

Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.

Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping’s China, and you can wind up in a cell.

In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.

The problem with some of our noisier exponents of ‘American exceptionalism’ is that they lack Reagan‘s moral maturity.

While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.

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

With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines to stand with Chick-fil-A.

If Trump’s talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.

As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?

While President Obama may not have ordered any surveillance of Trump or his advisors, the real question is whether he or Attorney General Loretta Lynch were aware of or approved of any surveillance of Trump and his staff during the campaign.

Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.

Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.

President Trump should tell the Senate, ‘No more admissions to NATO, no more U.S. war guarantees, unless I have recommended or approved them.’ Foreign policy is made in the White House, not on the Senate floor.

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

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

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiwan, backed off Tillerson’s warning to Beijing to vacate its fortified reefs in the South China Sea, and held out promises of major concessions to Beijing in future trade deals.

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.

Trump has raised the very issues I raised in the early ’90s.

When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are – usurpers and petty tyrants.

If the GOP wants to know why it lost the Reagan Democrats, it is because the GOP exported their jobs to Mexico and China.

People want to be with their own and want to be separated from others.

Bush II’s democracy crusade and Obama’s embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America’s wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.

On right-to-life, see the Republicans flee from Todd Akin, who committed a gaffe while restating his support for what has been a plank of the Republican platform since 1980.

Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan – to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?

While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.

The GOP’s insoluble problem is that the multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual country they created with their open borders appears not to like the brand of dog food the party sells.

From America’s schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.

While our corporatists burn incense at the shrine of the global economy, Trump went to visit the working-class casualties. And those forgotten Americans in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin responded.

I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.

What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?

We have no vital national interest in Syria’s civil war.

If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America’s appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.

Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?

The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.

Putin could no more survive returning Crimea to Ukraine than Bibi Netanyahu could survive giving East Jerusalem back to Jordan.

How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program – and not explode the deficit and national debt?

While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.

While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.

Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.

Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls’ bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?

Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?

That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.

One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations.

Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.

All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, ‘I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,’ and everybody cheers.

I opposed the World Trade Organization.

Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.

Candidate Trump held out his hand to Vladimir Putin. He rejected further U.S. intervention in Syria other than to smash ISIS.

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

Undeniably, we were on God’s side in World War II and the Cold War. But were we ourselves without sin in those just struggles?

A U.S. war with Iran could end with a Kurdish enclave in Iran’s northwest tied to Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran’s Azeri north drifting toward Azerbaijan, and a Balochi enclave in the south linked to Pakistan’s largest province, Balochistan, leaving Iran only Persia.

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

What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.

Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.

I’m not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.

President Trump’s seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.

The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism – making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that’s able to stand on its own feet.

When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.

My job is not to make people happy; it’s to tell the truth as I see it.

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

Angela Merkel puts Germany first.

Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia‘s interests, he often succeeds in his defiance and goes unpunished and unrepentant.

Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.

The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons’ hour of power in the GOP, is over.