Pat Buchanan Quotes

It is neither feasible nor desirable for Europe to establish itself as a geopolitical equal or competitor of the U.S.

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.

If I were remaking the United Nations there would only be one permanent representative—the United States because that’s the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world.

This is what separates us from you: We made demands. You were satisfied to serve the power of your nation, and we dreamed of giving ours her truth.

With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.

Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that's the mistake of Brexit that other people make.

This clutching hold of the E.U. is a sign of a lack of national self-confidence - which is not healthy.

Democracy on a supranational level is simply impossible. In order to have democracy, there needs to be a nation.

Turkey has put up a fight against the powerful nations of the world. The crusader mentality attacked us abroad. Inside, their lackeys attacked us. We didn't succumb. As a nation, we stood strong.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany

In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last.

Either we are a sovereign state, or we are not! As long as we are not, we have no business in a community of sovereign states.

I believe the world benefits from American leadership. I believe this next century should be an American century.

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do. If they decide to start a war, simply on the assumption that we will be automatically drawn into it, I think it is the obligation of friendship to say "you're not going to be making national decisions for us"

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

Now therefore, be it Resolved by the Fiftieth Annual Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, That we hereby declare that we are unalterably opposed to any program which would entail the surrender of any part of the sovereignty of the United States of America in favor of a world government.

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the United Nations (as it should) or rendering it impotent (which would probably be even better).