Pat Buchanan Quotes

Passivity is fatal to us.

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.

Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Never apologize. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl.

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.

You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

I don't want to be a princess who sits on the sidelines; I want to be present and actively involved. It's a life with a purpose.

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

There is a difference between bold leadership and nibbling around the edges.

I will not wait upon events.

Don't wait for someone to tell you what to do. Develop an innovative solution and work as a team to make it happen.

I don’t care about risk, honestly. The riskiest thing to do is not to act. I would far rather try and fail than fail not trying.

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

I've always had this incredible sense of urgency. I've always had this desire not to let things fester and to really seize the moment, because it's serendipity.