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Quotes from Pat Buchanan

In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
~ Pat Buchanan
A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.
~ Pat Buchanan
As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.
~ Pat Buchanan
I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
~ Pat Buchanan
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?
~ Pat Buchanan
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.
~ Pat Buchanan
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.
~ Pat Buchanan
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.
~ Pat Buchanan
I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
~ Pat Buchanan
Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits?
~ Pat Buchanan
Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
~ Pat Buchanan
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.
~ Pat Buchanan
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.
~ Pat Buchanan
When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
~ Pat Buchanan
What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
~ Pat Buchanan
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.
~ Pat Buchanan
From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.
~ Pat Buchanan
We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.
~ Pat Buchanan
Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
~ Pat Buchanan
If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
~ Pat Buchanan
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.
~ Pat Buchanan
The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.
~ Pat Buchanan
Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.
~ Pat Buchanan
With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines to stand with Chick-fil-A.
~ Pat Buchanan