Pat Buchanan Quotes

Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.

The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents;... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

There are many things in life that are not fair …. I don’t believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose; while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose, especially their lives.

Champagne Socialist

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

The fundamental error of Europe has been to confine the light of knowledge to the wealthy and great, while the humble and the depressed have been as sedulously excluded from its participation as the wretched criminal, immured in a dungeon, is from the light of Heaven.

Surrounded by the evidence of their success, the wealthy come to believe that they are fundamentally better than other Americans and that working people deserve their declining fortunes. They trumpet meritocracy while ensuring that their children enjoy crushing advantages from birth. They have unprecedented access to politicians and use it to push policies that swell their wealth while defunding institutions, such as public education, that sustain opportunities for less-fortunate Americans.

I worry Mr. Trump believes he's special just because he's Mr. Trump and that the rules don't apply to him and the people around him.

If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.

But the truth is the meritocracy is a lie. Those born into wealth and privilege will always be able to game the system for their own benefit and their children's own benefit.

In the South, people in power feel they don't have to answer to no one.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Class still matters in Britain today.

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?