American author & political commentator (1938- )
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.
PAT BUCHANAN
State of Emergency
The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an assault on the Second Amendment right of American gunowners to keep and bear arms.
PAT BUCHANAN
"Issues: Right to Keep & Bear Arms", June 5, 1999
If war is the continuation of politics by other means, terrorism is the continuation of war by other means.
PAT BUCHANAN
Where the Right Went Wrong
The Beltway Right has entered into a civil union with Big Brother.
PAT BUCHANAN
Where the Right Went Wrong
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?
PAT BUCHANAN
The Death of the West
The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance.... How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?
PAT BUCHANAN
Buchanan's syndicated newspaper column, July 28, 1993
Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of World Government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright shining lie.
PAT BUCHANAN
Where the Right Went Wrong
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.
PAT BUCHANAN
The Death of the West
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.
PAT BUCHANAN
Suicide of a Superpower
Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.
PAT BUCHANAN
speech to Christian Coalition, September 1993
The U.S. has unthinkingly embarked upon a neoimperial policy that must involve us in virtually every great war of the coming century--and wars are the death of republics. If we continue on this course of reflexive interventions, enemies will one day answer our power with the weapon of the weak-terror, and eventually cataclysmic terrorism on U.S. soil.
PAT BUCHANAN
Where the Right Went Wrong
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.
PAT BUCHANAN
Where the Right Went Wrong
Not every beast needs to be hunted down and killed; some are best left alone to live and die in their part of the forest.
PAT BUCHANAN
"A Republic, Not an Empire", October 9, 1999
America's media seem utterly lacking in introspection. Do they understand why so many people hate them so? Do they care? Are they so smugly self-righteous and self-regarding they cannot see?
PAT BUCHANAN
"Trump & the Press--A Death Struggle", September 19, 2016
If Americans are the most efficient workers on earth and work longer hours than almost any other advanced nation, why are we getting our clocks cleaned? Answer: While American workers are world-class, our elites are mentally challenged. So rhapsodic are they about the Global Economy they have forgotten their own country. Europeans, Japanese, Canadians and Chinese sell us so much more than they buy from us because they have rigged the rules of world trade.
PAT BUCHANAN
"How to Bring Manufacturing Back Home", September 29, 2006
Uncontrolled immigration threatens to deconstruct the nation we grew up in and convert America into a conglomeration of peoples with almost nothing in common -- not history, heroes, language, culture, faith, or ancestors. Balkanization beckons.
PAT BUCHANAN
The Death of the West
American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.
PAT BUCHANAN
speech, March 2, 1999
People are agitating for the overthrow of the old order and a new deal for America. For there is a palpable sense that the game is rigged against Middle America and for the benefit of insiders who grow rich and fat not by making things or building things, but by manipulating money.
PAT BUCHANAN
"The Anti-Politician", Chronicles, June 19, 2015
Trump did not create the forces that propelled his candidacy. But he recognized them, tapped into them, and unleashed a gusher of nationalism and populism that will not soon dissipate.
PAT BUCHANAN
"What Hath Trump Wrought?", November 8, 2016
Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.
PAT BUCHANAN
Where the Right Went Wrong