Quotes from Pat Buchanan

Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.

Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.

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

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

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

I said these trade deals are going to be terrible: we're going to lose manufacturing jobs, factories abroad; the real wages of Americans are not going to rise. People are coming across the border; it has got to be stopped.

The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

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.

If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet - why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States?

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?

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

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.

I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.

Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.

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

There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

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

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.

We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

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

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

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.