J. Buchanan Quotes

Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.

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.

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

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

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.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

I am the last President of the United States!

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

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.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

[The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God.

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.

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.

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

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

Friends are family you choose.

I like the noise of democracy.

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

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

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

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

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

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

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

How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel?

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

We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.

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.

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.