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Patrick Joseph Buchanan is an American paleoconservative political commentator, columnist, politician and broadcaster. Buchanan was an assistant and special consultant to U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. He ran on the Reform Party ticket in the 2000 presidential election.

He co-founded The American Conservative magazine and launched a foundation named The American Cause. He has been published in Human Events, National Review, The Nation, and Rolling Stone. He was a political commentator on the MSNBC cable network, including the show Morning Joe until February 2012, and now appears on Fox News. Buchanan is also a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group. His political positions can generally be described as paleoconservative, and many of his views, particularly his opposition to American imperialism and the managerial state, echo those of the Old Right Republicans of the first half of the 20th century. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. November 1938   •   Other names Патрик Бьюкенен, Patrick J. Buchanan
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Patrick Buchanan Quotes

“A true nation is held together not by any political creed but by patriotism…. For two centuries, men have died for America.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, State of Emergency (2006)

Men

“If Iraq collapses in chaos and civil war, there will be a ferocious fight in this country over who misled us and who may have lied us, into war. Into the dock will go the neoconservatives whose class project this was.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

War , Fight , Country

“Angry white male” is now an acceptable slur in culture and politics. So it is that people of that derided ethnicity, race, and gender see in Donald Trump someone who unapologetically berates and mocks the elites who have dispossessed them, and who despise them. Is it any surprise that militant anti-government groups attract white males? Is it so surprising that the Donald today, like Jess Willard a century ago, is seen by millions as “The Great White Hope?”

Patrick Buchanan

"The Great White Hope" http://buchanan.org/blog/great-white-hope-125286 (May 26, 2016), Patrick J. Buchanan
2010s

People , Hope

“Historians will look back in stupor at 20th and 21st century Americans who believed the magnificent republic they inherited would be enriched by bringing in scores of millions from the failed states of the Third World.”

Patrick Buchanan

2010s, Suicide of a Superpower (2011)

World

“The last consequence of a dying Christianity is a dying people. Not one post-Christian nation has a birth rate sufficient to keep it alive…. The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.”

Patrick Buchanan

2010s, Suicide of a Superpower (2011)

Death , People , Birth

“How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect?”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

“The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world. Not everyone coming here brings in his heart the passionate attachment to America we attribute to the peoples of Ellis Island.”

Patrick Buchanan

2010s, State of Emergency (2006)

People , World , Passion , Heart

“The crisis of the West is a collapsing culture and vanishing peoples, as a Third World that grows by 100 million people, the equivalent of a new Mexico, every 18 months, mounts the greatest invasion in history of the world. If we do not shake off our paralysis, the West comes to an end.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, State of Emergency (2006)

People , World , History

“Nine days after an attack on the United States, this tiny clique of intellectuals [Neocons] was telling the President of the United States…that if he did not follow their war plans, he would be charged publicly with a "decisive surrender" to terrorism.”

Patrick Buchanan

2010s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

War , Decision

“In half a lifetime, many Americans have seen their God dethroned, their heroes defiled, their culture polluted, their values assaulted, their country invaded, and themselves demonized as extremists and bigots for holding on to beliefs Americans have held for generations.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, The Death of the West (2002)

God , Country

“The new hedonism seems unable to give people a reason to go on living. Its earliest fruits appear to be poisonous. Will this new "liberating" culture that our young have so enthusiastically embraced prove the deadliest carcinogen of them all? And if the West is in the grip of a "culture of death," as the pope contends and the statistics seem to show, is Western civilization about to follow Lenin's empire to the same inglorious end?”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, The Death of the West (2002)

Death , People , Appearance

“We are not hated for who we are. We are hated for what we do. It is not our principles that have spawned pandemic hatred of America in the Islamic world. It is our policies.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

Hate , World

“The Bush Doctrine is a prescription for permanent war for permanent peace, though wars are the death of republics.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

Death , War , Peace

“America's enemy in the Islamic world is not a state we can crush with sanctions or an enemy we can defeat with force of arms. The enemy is a cause, a movement, an idea.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

World , Idea

“We have accepted today the existence in perpetuity of a permanent underclass of scores of millions who cannot cope and must be carried by society — fed, clothed, housed, tutored, medicated at taxpayer’s expense their entire lives. We have a dependent nation the size of Spain in our independent America. We have a new division in our country, those who pay a double or triple fare, and those who ride forever free.”

Patrick Buchanan

2010s, Suicide of a Superpower (2011)

Housing , Dependency , Clothes , Country

“Our illegal population alone exceeds the all the Irish, Jewish and British immigrants who came. Each year, we catch more people breaking in at the border than all the Swedes and Norwegians who came to America in 200 years. Half a million illegal aliens succeed in breaking in every year, more than all the Greeks or Poles who came legally from the Revolution to 1960.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, State of Emergency (2006)

People

“The Bush plan is economic treason against the American worker. That "civil rights leaders" are silent about the dispossession of the black working class, that unions are not marching to denounce this sellout of blue-collar and white-collar America, only tells us that the amorality of the transnational corporation has infected both. Solidarity be damned, it is all about money now.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, State of Emergency (2006)

Money

“To its neocon architects, Iraq was always about empire, hegemony, Pax Americana, global democracy – about getting hold of America’s power to make the Middle East safe for Sharon and themselves glorious and famous.”

Patrick Buchanan

"Have the Neocons Destroyed the Presidency?" http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-have-the-neocons-destroyed-the-presidency-577 (February 16, 2004), Patrick J. Buchanan
2000s

Democracy

“The Sharon Plan is not a peace plan. It is a unilateral solution to be imposed by Israel…. A Palestinian leader who signs on to this surrender of land and rights would be signing his death warrant.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

Death , Peace

“We are trying to create a nation that has never before existed, of all the races, tribes, cultures and creeds of Earth, where all are equal. In this utopian drive for the perfect society of our dreams we are killing the real country we inherited — the best and greatest country on earth.”

Patrick Buchanan

2010s, Suicide of a Superpower (2011)

Dreams , Perfection , Country

“Middle America believes the establishment is not looking out for the nation but for retention of its power. And in attacking Trump it is not upholding some objective moral standard but seeking to destroy a leader who represents a grave threat to that power. Trump’s followers see an American Spring as crucial, and they are not going to let past boorish behavior cause them to abandon the last best chance to preserve the country they grew up in.”

Patrick Buchanan

What Hath Trump Wrought?" http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2016/11/08/what-hath-trump-wrought-n2242718 (November 8, 2016), Townhall
2010s

Behavior , Spring , Chance , Past

“We borrow from Europe to defend Europe. We borrow from the Gulf states to defend the Gulf states. We borrow from Japan to defend Japan. Is it not a symptom of senility to be borrowing from the world so we can defend the world?”

Patrick Buchanan

2010s, Suicide of a Superpower (2011)

World

“The dirty little secret is that Congress no longer wants the accountability that goes with the wielding of power.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

Secret

“If America is about anything, she is about freedom. We have seen in the burgeoning Department of Homeland Security and at our airports and in the color-coded alerts the beginning of the erosion of that freedom.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

Color , Freedom

“Mexico is moving north. Ethnically, linguistically and culturally, the verdict of 1848 is being over-turned. Will this Mexican nation within a nation advance the goals of the Constitution — to “insure domestic tranquility” and ‘make us a more perfect union’? Or have we imperiled our union?”

Patrick Buchanan

2010s, Suicide of a Superpower (2011)

Perfection

“What America has in Hillary Clinton is a potential president with the charisma but not the competence of Angela Merkel, and the ethics of Dilma Rousseff.”

Patrick Buchanan

"It Ain't Over Till It's Over" https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/it-aint-over-till-its-over/ (August 19, 2016), Chronicles
2010s

“Kristol's warning that neoconservatives could go to Kerry was an admission of what many have long recognized. The neoconservatives are not really conservatives at all. They are impostors and opportunists.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

“Under the rubric of conservatism, the Republican party of Bush I and II has been reinventing itself into what conservatives would have once recognized as a Rockefeller party reciting Reaganite rhetoric.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

“On Bush "Free Trade" policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

“Chicano chauvinists and Mexican agents have made clear their intent to take back through demography and culture what their ancestors lost through war.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, State of Emergency (2006)

War

“Through its support of mass immigration, its paralysis in power to prevent 12-20 million illegal aliens from entering and staying, its failure to address the “anchor-baby” issue, the Republican Party has birthed a new electorate that will send it the way of the Whigs.”

Patrick Buchanan

2010s, Suicide of a Superpower (2011)

Way , Birth , Failure , Support

“In 1960, the U. S. population was 89% white. By 1990, it was 76%. Today, it is under 70%. By 2050, white Americans, the most loyal voting bloc the Republican Party has, that provides 90% of all GOP votes, will be just another minority because of an immigration policy championed by Republicans. When John Stuart Mill called the Tories "the Stupid Party," he was not entirely wrong.”

Patrick Buchanan

2010s, State of Emergency (2006)

Stupidity

“In July 1944, at the Mount Washington Hotel in the resort town of Bretton Woods in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White created the New World Order.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

World , Mountain

“There is no conservative party in Washington. There is a Democratic Party of tax-and-spend and a Republican Party of guns and butter and tax cuts, too. Washington is all accelerator, the brakes are gone.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

“Like the Paris riots, the struggle over French history raises grave questions for Europe. How does the presence of 20 million Muslims who come from nations where men believe their grandfathers were exploited and persecuted by Europeans advance the unity and security of Europe? How is Europe made stronger by such "diversity?"”

Patrick Buchanan

2010s, State of Emergency (2006)

Men , History , Question

“It is false to say President Bush presided over a "jobless recovery." His trade deficits have created many millions of jobs in China.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

Falseness

“As Rome passed away, so, the West is passing away, from the same causes and in much the same way. What the Danube and Rhine were to Rome, the Rio Grande and Mediterranean are to America and Europe, the frontiers of a civilization no longer defended.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, State of Emergency (2006)

Way

“Concerned about his legacy, George W. Bush may yet live to see his name entered into the history of his country as the president who lost the American Southwest that James K. Polk won for the United States.”

Patrick Buchanan

2000s, State of Emergency (2006)

History , Country

“After the Soviet Union withdrew the Red Army from Europe and split into 15 nations, and Russia held out its hand to us, we slapped it away and rolled NATO right up onto her front porch. Enraged Russians turned to a man who would restore respect for their country. Did we think they would just sit there and take it? How did bringing Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into NATO make America stronger, safer and more secure? For it has surely moved us closer to a military clash with a nuclear power.”

Patrick Buchanan
Thinking , Country

“Neocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country.”

Patrick Buchanan

Neo-Conned! Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq (eds. Liam O'Huallachain and J. Forrest Sharpe, 2005)
2000s

Country