Pat Buchanan Quotes

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Pat Buchanan

Profession : Journalist

Birth : November 2, 1938

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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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

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

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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?

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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.

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Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.

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

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

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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Among the achievements celebrated in Trump's first 100 days are the 59 cruise missiles launched at the Syrian airfield from which the gas attack on civilians allegedly came, and the dropping of the 22,000-pound MOAB bomb in Afghanistan. But what did these bombings accomplish?

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