Pat Buchanan Quotes

I'm against the idea of force-feeding all of Canada on two languages.

You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.

Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation.

Bottom line: this is the United States. And we speak English here.

You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.

English should be acknowledged once and for all as the official language of the United States.

It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual, but it is a curse for a society to be bilingual… A society must be able to talk amongst itself.

Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens - it is an imposition on the state.

Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

When California passes a law saying that English is the official language, it can only mean one thing: That English is no longer the official language.

Should people working in our country speak English? Yes, they should.

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

I am not anti-English, and I never was.

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave monolingual Britain? Our political leaders like to boast about how global Britain is, but when it comes to languages, it is near the bottom of the global league, together with another island state, Japan.

So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.

Citizens of Canada of whom any child has received or is receiving primary or secondary school instruction in English or French in Canada, have the right to have all their children receive primary and secondary school instruction in the same language.

English and French are the official languages of Canada and have equality of status and equal rights and privileges as to their use in all institutions of the Parliament and government of Canada.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

The English language is the law of the people of the United States.

You cannot have one or two million immigrants a year and still have English as the only official language of the country.