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Pat Buchanan, fully Patrick Joseph "Pat" Buchanan

American Paleoconservative Racist Political Commentator, Nazi Sympathizer, Author, Syndicated Columnist, Politician and Broadcaster, sought Presidential Nomination on the Reform Party ticket

"We borrow from Europe to defend Europe. We borrow from the Gulf states to defend the Gulf states. We borrow from Japan to defend Japan. Is it not a symptom of senility to be borrowing from the world so we can defend the world?"

"We had every right, and we were more than right... just and moral to smash (Germany and Japan),"

"We have only sought to preserve the country we grew up in. Do not people everywhere do that, without being reviled? What motivates people who insist that America?s doors be held open wide until the European majority has disappeared?"

"We may deny the existence of ethno-nationalism, detest it, condemn it. But this creator and destroyer of empires and nations is a force infinitely more powerful than globalism, for it engages the heart. Men will die for it. Religion, race, culture and tribe are the four horsemen of the coming apocalypse."

"We have not indicated that we do not welcome people with different views... But clearly Pat is not going to walk away from [conservative] issues."

"We start building this party into the teens in the polls, then we get in that debate with Albert and with W."

"We will no longer squander the blood of our soldiers fighting other countries' wars or the wealth of our people paying other countries' bills."

"We will not accept one-sided trade deals with Beijing, where we buy 40 percent of their exports and they buy 1 percent of ours."

"We'll keep your goods out unless you let our goods in."

"We want our country back."

"We want to build and grow the Reform Party. Ross, instead of fighting us and opposing us, come on and help us."

"We worked very closely with the nominating committee... We followed exactly their instructions,"

"What can be said for a man who would allow his home to be invaded by strangers who demanded they be fed, clothed, housed and granted the rights of the first-born? What can be said for a ruling elite that permits this to be done to the nation, and who celebrate it as a milestone of moral progress?"

"Well, if there's poison in the beer, you shut down St. Patty's day."

"What he did was help destroy an enormously popular president and, partly as a consequence of that, what 58,000 Americans died for in Vietnam was poured down the sewer."

"What has been done with the opportunity?"

"What I say was a horrendous mistake was Neville Chamberlain's policy of handing war guarantees to Poland he had no intention of keeping. That led directly to the Hitler-Stalin pact, to the annihilation of Poland, the overrunning of Western Europe, the death of the British Empire... Fox News Sunday."

"What is their grudge against the old America that eats at their heart?"

"What the above points to is a strategy from which Republicans will recoil, a strategy to increase the GOP share of the white Christian vote and increase the turnout of that vote by specific appeals to social, cultural, and moral issues, and for equal justice for the emerging white minority. If the GOP is not the party of New Haven firefighter Frank Ricci and Cambridge cop James Crowley, it has no future. And although Howard Dean disparages the Republicans as the "white party," why should Republicans be ashamed to represent the progeny of the men who founded, built, and defended America since her birth as a nation?"

"What makes the Pastor-CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] plan remarkable is that those who would abolish America are out of the closet. The penultimate step to world government, a North American Union built on the model of the European Union, to one day merge with it in a World Union of Nations and Peoples, is before us on the table."

"What we need (are) leaders who have the convictions of the folks back at the grass-roots (level) who want to fight and who are willing to go down to defeat if necessary for things they believe in."

"What was right and true yesterday is wrong and false today. What was immoral and shameful ? promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, suicide ? has become progressive and praiseworthy. Nietzsche called it the trans-valuation of all values; the old virtues become sins, and the old sins become virtues."

"Whatever Rudolph did during World War II, his quarter century of service to the United States entitles the old man to a public hearing before he goes to his grave."

"Who speaks for the Euro-Americans, who founded the U.S.A.? ?Is it not time to take America back?"

"When you face your maker, you're going to have to answer a number of questions. And he's not going to ask you whether or not (you) supported a tax cut... But he's going to say, 'When this great thing, evil thing was going on, did you speak out against it or did you not?'"

"When it suits them, our Israeli allies launch air strikes on Tunis, Baghdad or Beirut; they invade Lebanon; they even enlist U.S. traitors, like the Pollards, to loot the secrets of a nation that has manifested toward them an extraordinary indulgence."

"White America is an endangered species. By 2020, whites over 65 will out-number those 17 and under. Deaths will exceed births. The white population will begin to shrink and, should present birth rates persist, slowly disappear."

"Who would lay down his life for the UN, EU or a "North American Union?"... Every true nation is the creation of a unique people, separate from all others. Indeed, if America is an ideological nation grounded no deeper than in the sandy soil of abstract ideas, she will not survive the storms of this century any more than the Soviet Union survived the storms of the last..."

"Why does President Bush not act? What is paralyzing the White House? Answer: Political correctness, political cowardice, political opportunism, a sense of guilt for America?s sins, and twin ideologies that have a grip on our elites not unlike a religious cult. The proud old boast, ?Here, sir, the people rule!? no longer applies."

"Will the American Southwest become a giant Kosovo, a part of the nation separated from the rest by language, ethnicity, history and culture, to be reabsorbed in all but name by Mexico from whom we took these lands in the time of Jackson and Polk?"

"With perhaps 4 million illegal aliens having broken in in Bush?s five-and-a-half years in office, and our border states being daily breached by thousands more, can anyone say President Bush has protected the states of this Union against that invasion? In an earlier America, this dereliction of constitutional duty would have called forth articles of impeachment."

"Yes, we disagreed with President Bush. But we stand with him for freedom to choose religious schools. And we stand with him against the amoral idea that gay and lesbian couples should have the same standing in law as married men and women."

"With the Constitution, the law, and the politics on the side of doing his duty and securing our broken border, why does President Bush not act? What is paralyzing the White House? Answer: Political correctness, political cowardice, political opportunism, a sense of guilt for America's sins, and twin ideologies that have a grip on our elites not unlike a religious cult. The proud old boast, "Here, sir, the people rule!" no longer applies. We no longer live in a truly democratic republic."

"You don't get up in the polls unless you get on the debates, and you don't get on the debates unless you go up in the polls."

"Young Asian males are nine times as likely as white youth to belong to a gang and Hispanic youth are 19 times more likely. A disproportionate share of Hispanic young and poor are thus assimilating into a misogynistic, rebellious, youth sub-culture of drugs, gangs, crime, contempt for formal education, and hostility to police."