Top 60 Pat Buchanan Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.”

— Pat Buchanan

2. “If we don’t stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.”

— Pat Buchanan

3. “Do not wait for orders from headquarters! Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the guns!”

— Pat Buchanan

4. “Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey.”

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Pat Buchanan

6. “Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and conservatives are being played for suckers.”

— Pat Buchanan

7. “Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.”

— Pat Buchanan

8. “Either we abandon the utopian globalism of open borders and ‘ally-ally-in-free’ immigration or we lose the war on terrorism and our freedoms with it.”

— Pat Buchanan

9. “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.”

— Pat Buchanan

10. “Empire breeds terrorism.”

— Pat Buchanan

11. “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

12. “A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.”

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Pat Buchanan

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16. “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

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

— Pat Buchanan

18. “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.”

— Pat Buchanan

19. “The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.”

— Pat Buchanan

20. “When we hear phrases like ‘New World Order,’ we release the safety catches on our revolvers.”

— Pat Buchanan

21. “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.”

— Pat Buchanan

22. “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

23. “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.”

— Pat Buchanan

24. “If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built. No nation has ever undergone so radical a demographic transformation and survived.”

— Pat Buchanan

25. “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?”

— Pat Buchanan

26. “It’s in the struggle itself that you define yourself.”

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Pat Buchanan

28. “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.”

— Pat Buchanan

29. “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.”

— Pat Buchanan

30. “American politician doesWe’re going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.”

— Pat Buchanan

31. “On immigration policy, I believe we ought to call an immediate halt, stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration back to about 250,000 to 300,000, to more easily assimilate the Americans who’ve come here in the last 30 years.”

— Pat Buchanan

32. “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.”

— Pat Buchanan

33. “If America does not wish to end her days in the same nursing home as Britannia she had best end this geo-babble about new world orders. Our war, the Cold War, is over. It is time for America to come home.”

— Pat Buchanan

34. “Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.”

— Pat Buchanan

35. “By threatening war against Iran, Iraq and North Korea in his now-famous “Axis of Evil” address, the president painted himself into a corner. Either Bush now goes to war against one of these regimes, or he will be humiliated and exposed as a bellicose bluff.”

— Pat Buchanan

36. “Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.”

— Pat Buchanan

37. “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.”

— Pat Buchanan

38. “Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie.”

— Pat Buchanan

39. “Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.”

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Pat Buchanan

41. “Blacks Bought A Lot Of Propaganda On The Liberal Plantation.”

— Pat Buchanan

42. “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.”

— Pat Buchanan

43. “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

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

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Pat Buchanan

50. “What’s the Christian-bashing all about? Simple- a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law.”

— Pat Buchanan