Pat Buchanan Quotes

By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq.

Israeli government & the neocons want US to bomb Iran.

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

Iran has attacked oil fields and shot down a U.S. drone - all while we stood by.

I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.

The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.

Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.

And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.

The [foreign] policy of the United States is modeled on interventionism and aggression. It is logical that we should always be very suspicious.

If Iranian Missiles Hit Israel, I Will Dance in Trafalgar Square.

One hour ago, President Johnson informed me that Egyptian forces are preparing an attack on Israeli positions and that this attack is to be launched. If such a thing happens, then the United States will consider itself freed from the commitments it gave to the USSR to exercise restraint.

I don't recall anyone who was strongly against except one man, and that was the President [JFK]. The President just didn't want to be convinced that this was the right thing to do.... It was really the President's personal conviction that U.S. ground troops shouldn't go in.

The United States is proud of her remoteness from the old world, her freedom from entanglement in its quarrels, her isolation. Yet in her relatively very short history as an independent state she has fought at least six foreign wars while her troops have landed on foreign soil on nearly a hundred occasions. Not one of those wars was for the purpose of defending American soil.

Every president I worked for, at some point in his presidency, would get so pissed off at the Israelis that he couldn’t speak.

Running on the pledge to end two wars, President Obama has the country entangled in three: Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and that doesn't include the American's foray into Libya.

As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

The American people deserve answers about Benghazi before we move forward with military involvement in Syria's civil war.

This was not a decision made with the Israelis. This was a decision by the president for the American people. And so, it was a decision that we all said Jerusalem should be the capital and the embassy should be there. This decision should not weigh in on the peace process.

Listen, every time we're meeting with our counterparts in Israel, the state of Iran is always something that's at the top of the list and the things we discuss. And that's because the regime in Iran continually threatens Israel, threatens the United States.

As the United States Congress considers military intervention in Syria, per President Obama's request, I think it's important to be very honest about what we are considering.

America has been a force for much good in the world. But we should learn from the mistakes of an over-expansionist foreign policy and return to the restraint that George Washington and John Quincy Adams advocated.

The last thing that Israel needs is to be part of the internal agenda in the United States between Republicans and Democrats.