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Former Assistant to the President for Communications

Pat Buchanan is an American political commentator and author, born on November 2, 1938. He served as the Assistant to the President for Communications under President Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush, and is known for his conservative political views.

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“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.”

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“There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue, that we are a European country.”

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“Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.”

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“The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.”

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“The question we Americans need to address, before it is answered for us, is: Does this First World nation wish to become a Third World country? Because that is our destiny if we do not build a sea wall against the waves of immigration rolling over our shores...Who speaks for the Euro-Americans, who founded the USA?...Is it not time to take back America?”

“Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.”

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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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“Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.”

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“As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into Europe for the third time in 14 centuries, on this one, Breivik may be right.”

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“Neocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon.”

Country Our Country Echoes Ariel Sharon

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“They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what's good for Israel is good for America.”

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“Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.”

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“I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first.”

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“Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.”

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“On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.”

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“We were among Hoover's conduits to the American people.”

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“How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?”

Long Country Whole Cry Racism Endless Groveling

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“How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?”

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“If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?”

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“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.”

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“Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy. The reason public men rarely say aloud what most say privately is they are fearful of being branded 'bigots' by an intolerant liberal orthodoxy that holds, against all evidence and experience, that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle.”

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“The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).”

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“With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide.”

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“AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature.”

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“Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.”

Real Country Process Substitutes Idolatry False Gods

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“Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?”

Christian Discrimination Massive Segregation Disobedience Civil Disobedience Anti Christian

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“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.”

Needs Country Religion House Winning My Friends Election Beloved Presidency Beloved Country

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

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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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“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?”

People Ifs Knows Country Forget

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“Let it be said: Loyalty to the New World Order is disloyalty to the Republic”

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“America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.”

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“No true Christian can carry within his heart hatred for any of God's children . . . I am as aware as any other Christian that our Savior was Jewish, His mother was Jewish. The Apostles were Jewish. The first martyrs were Jewish...So no true Christian, in my judgment, can be an anti-Semite.”

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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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“There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.”

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“Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.”

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“We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'”

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“You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.”

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“The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.”

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“Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.”

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“I've gotten balanced coverage and broad coverage - all we could have asked. ... For heaven sakes, we kid about the liberal media, but every republican on earth does that.”

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“If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.”

Ifs Has Beens Results Media Revolution Medical Disaster Reports Tragic Catastrophe Rebellious Collaborators Sexual Revolution

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“I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. On Media's Participation In Watergate”

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About the Author

Born: November 2, 1938
Known for: Former Assistant to the President for Communications
Quotes: 95

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