Latest Pat Buchanan Quotes from Interviews

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• When I ran against George Bush Sr. in 1992, and we did very well in New Hampshire, and then we went on to California, it was four, five months later, I got 30 percent in the counties in Southern California, because Californians wanted us to do something about thousands of people walking into our country on weekends, and the president of the United States and the government of the United States, unlike General Eisenhower who dealt with it, did nothing. And that's what Trump is riding.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Weekend, Government

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• America cannot commit to go to war on behalf of 50 countries around the world because that is the formula that is one day going to break down and break out into war.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, War, America

  Source: www.npr.org

• People who stand up against wars aren't necessarily always wrong.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, People, Always Wrong

  "Pat Buchanan On 'America First' Under Trump By EDITOR • JAN 22, 2017". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Loudres Garcia-Navarro, www.npr.org. January 22, 2017.

• The world has changed, and the United States needs to change with it.

  Pat Buchanan

  World, United States, Needs

  Source: www.npr.org

• What America first means is we put the national interests of the United States and the well-being of our own country and our own people first. Our foreign policy, first and foremost, should be focused on the defense of American freedom, security and rights.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Mean, America

  Source: www.npr.org

• We have Mr. Putin in Russia. And he appears to be a popular president of Russia. And I don't think it's the business of the National Endowment for Democracy or American diplomats or American foreign policy to try to change the nature of that government.

  Pat Buchanan

  Thinking, Russia, Government

  "Pat Buchanan On 'America First' Under Trump". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, www.npr.org. January 22, 2017.

• Nations decide upon their own destinies, and those choices are not the business of the United States if they do not threaten the United States.

  Pat Buchanan

  Destiny, Decide Upon, Choices

  Source: www.npr.org

• There has been sort of, if you will, a moral interventionism on the part of the United States trying to reshape countries in our own image. Now, we had to go into Afghanistan. We didn't have to go into Iraq. But the idea that you could create a Vermont in the Middle East like that was naive from the beginning.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Ideas, Iraq

  Source: www.npr.org