Pat Buchanan Quotes
The future belongs to Conservatives. They are younger, they are more energetic, they dominate the party caucuses, they dominate the nominating process. They are committed to ideas, not simply personal aggrandizement or title.
Pat Buchanan, White House Speech Writer (Republican), Candidate for Republican Presidential Nominee, Reform Party Presidential Candidate, Political Columnist, Quoted in The 1989 Conservative Calendar
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Before that both parties had liberals and conservatives in profusion. Many of the Democatic Party positions were very conservative. Roosevelt wanted the party to become the liberal and left wing policy. He was able to make the party economically liberal, but the worst of America’s racists were all Democrats at the time and stayed with the Democratic Party led the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Bill of 1963. The Republican Party then created a home for the racist Southern Democrats, who left the Democratic Party in anger.
Over time, this has been a good description of the difference between the Democratic and Republican parties.
Patrick Joseph Buchanan is an American paleoconservative political commentator, columnist, politician and broadcaster. Buchanan was an assistant and special consultant to U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. He ran on the Reform Party ticket in the 2000 presidential election.