Top 100 Buchanan Quotes

#1. In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.

John Buchanan Robinson

#2. Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

Pat Buchanan

#3. An eye-jangling assortment of spurious clan tartans, adorning every conceivable object made of fabric, from caps, neckties, and serviettes down to a particularly horrid yellow "Buchanan" sett used to make men's nylon Y-front underpants.

Diana Gabaldon

#4. Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

Edna Buchanan

#5. Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.

Mark Buchanan

#6. In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.

Edna Buchanan

#7. My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.

Adoniram Judson

#8. Pat Buchanan is so homo-phobic, he blames global warming on the AIDS quilt.

Dennis Miller

#9. Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.

Pat Buchanan

#10. Sometimes i wish that I was a man so I could tell haters to 'blow me.

Marla Buchanan

#11. I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. On Media's Participation In Watergate

Pat Buchanan

#12. When we hear phrases like 'New World Order,' we release the safety catches on our revolvers.

Pat Buchanan

#13. After four hundred and ninety-nine years of existence, Connor Buchanan arrived at an inescapable conclusion regarding himself. He was a coldhearted old bastard.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#14. Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.

Robert Williams Buchanan

#15. Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

James Buchanan

#16. James Buchanan's niece: "He often worked just for work's sake.

Bruce Chadwick

#17. My favorite forgotten President in American history is James Buchanan, who in defending really robust and sharp-elbowed debates said, "I like the noise of democracy. I like the sound of people in the streets making noise."

Jeff Sharlet

#18. Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.

Pat Buchanan

#19. Young men just don't drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#20. You know," Kabe tugged his shirt off and tossed it on the floor. "The whole innocent thing is kinda cute."
Shirt halfway up my middle, I stopped.
"I'm nothing like cute." My glare told him I'd hurt him if kept it up.
"Me and cute don't add up.

James Buchanan

#21. There were times that Nathan felt the world would be better off if he were dead. It seemed to him that it would be penance for his sins.

Belinda G. Buchanan

#22. In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

John Buchanan Robinson

#23. Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Mark Buchanan

#24. It is about being born downtrodden and staying that way. Hard work makes no difference, he is saying. My lot, the lots of those around me, were cast the moment we were born into the gutter to parents who never managed to step outside the gutter themselves.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#25. [The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God.

Pat Buchanan

#26. The heavens are full of floating mysteries.

Thomas Buchanan Read

#27. Life is a death-defying experience.

Edna Buchanan

#28. My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him.

Willie Geist

#29. Just when you think you've got Arranged figured out, time and again Catherine McKenzie delivers the flawless, unexpected twist that keeps you glued to the book.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#30. God's definition of going well is unique, distinct, almost eccentric. His definition of wellness is not about health, finances, or job security. It's not about unfailing protection from the vagaries and dangers of a broken world. It's not about life being fair. It's about acceptance.

Mark Buchanan

#31. Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

Edna Buchanan

#32. Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and legalisms and inaction until it is too late

John Buchanan

#33. Know what the best thing about morning sex is?" Caesar snorted and pinched Nate's hip.
"Sex?"
"No," Nate laughed, "nobody has to sleep on the wet spot.

James Buchanan

#34. But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.

Mark Buchanan

#35. For a moment my heart stopped beating. "It's not the fall you know." His breath was all warm on my cheek. "It's that sudden stop at the end that does it." Just before I kissed him, I whispered, "I hope it doesn't hurt much.

James Buchanan

#36. My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.

Thomas Buchanan Read

#37. McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

Pat Buchanan

#38. True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Edna Buchanan

#39. Friends are family you choose.

Edna Buchanan

#40. Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

Mark Buchanan

#41. Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

John Buchanan Robinson

#42. Do not wait for orders from headquarters! Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the guns!

Pat Buchanan

#43. There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

John Buchanan Robinson

#44. You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.

Edna Buchanan

#45. Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in. Very few journalists joined in. What happened was, when he entered the presidential politics, then he entered a new level of criticism and attack on him.

Robert Novak

#46. I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#47. No true Christian can carry within his heart hatred for any of God's children ... I am as aware as any other Christian that our Savior was Jewish, His mother was Jewish. The Apostles were Jewish. The first martyrs were Jewish ... So no true Christian, in my judgment, can be an anti-Semite.

Pat Buchanan

#48. I like the noise of democracy.

James Buchanan

#49. You say to God, "I have never seen you provide for me."
God says to you, "You have never trusted Me.

Corallie Buchanan

#50. If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

Edna Buchanan

#51. Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.

John Buchanan Robinson

#52. I'm very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#53. If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built. No nation has ever undergone so radical a demographic transformation and survived.

Pat Buchanan

#54. You can just take your prejudice and shove it where the sun don't shine."
One of the hardest things I've ever said. Took every ounce of will in my body to get it passed my teeth.

James Buchanan

#55. Life can catch you off guard. It smacks you in the face when you least expect it. There is nothing that you can do but accept what has been given to you and work with what you have.

Joann Buchanan

#56. There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

Pat Buchanan

#57. There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

John Buchanan Robinson

#58. I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#59. Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

John Buchanan Robinson

#60. Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

Mark Buchanan

#61. I've gotten balanced coverage and broad coverage - all we could have asked ... For heaven sakes, we kid about the liberal media, but every republican on earth does that.

Pat Buchanan

#62. As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

Pat Buchanan

#63. Why did the male IQ divide rather than multiply in groups?

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

#64. I think [Pat] Buchanan is far too easily and glibly dismissed.

Tucker Carlson

#65. Are you murdering more eggs for breakfast?" Japhet raised his head as the sound of boiling water filled the small apartment.
"Don't insult my eggs, Buchanan."
"You insulted my roasted chicken, Kappel, so I can insult your eggs all I want.

Jack Lewis Baillot

#66. I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#67. I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes.

Edna Buchanan

#68. To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

James Buchanan

#69. concept: me, wandering through the morning fog of a flowery hillside. the world is still and silent and calm

L.J. Buchanan

#70. Let it be said: Loyalty to the New World Order is disloyalty to the
Republic

Pat Buchanan

#71. Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey.

Pat Buchanan

#72. I discovered that being thankful and experiencing the power and presence of Jesus Christ are tightly entwined. As we practice thankfulness, we experience more of God's transforming grace, God's thereness.

Mark Buchanan

#73. Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

John Buchanan Robinson

#74. A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't turn down a tour of Johannes Vermeer's Delft led by Tracey Chevalier.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#75. Friends are the family we choose for ourselves

Edna Buchanan

#76. If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

Pat Buchanan

#77. concept: the universe hears you crying and sings a little song for you. the universe hopes you can hear it

L.J. Buchanan

#78. Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is simply denying your pain the right to control your life. Corallie Buchanan, Watch Out! Godly Women on the Loose

Suzanne Eller

#79. If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

James Buchanan

#80. As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into Europe for the third time in 14 centuries, on this one, Breivik may be right.

Pat Buchanan

#81. The novel is an event in consciousness. Our aim isn't to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it. The novelist is inviting the reader to watch a performance in his own brain.

George W. Buchanan

#82. The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced 'economics,' as an independent academic discipline or science.

James M. Buchanan

#83. Sex had a way of reminding two people of the amazing connection that could exist between two people that are in love. It was something that if done with the right amount

Carla Buchanan

#84. Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

Claudius Buchanan

#85. The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union

James Buchanan

#86. Politicians used AIDS to energize anti-gay supporters and religious conservatives who heralded it as a consequence of immorality. Pat Buchanan, an adviser to President Reagan, declared, "The poor homosexuals - they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is exacting an awful retribution." A

Sean Strub

#87. The poor homosexuals
they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

Pat Buchanan

#88. If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

Pat Buchanan

#89. They charge us with anti-Semitism ... The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what's good for Israel is good for America.

Pat Buchanan

#90. It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

John Buchanan Robinson

#91. We're going to capture the lost sovereignty of our country ... And when we get there, my friends, we will only be obedient to one sovereign America, and that is the sovereign of God Himself and His laws.

Pat Buchanan

#92. The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

Edna Buchanan

#93. I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#94. Well, from 1969 to 1984, until he died of AIDS, a teacher and I were very good friends. He even attended celebrations at my home, and I have to admit I even went with him to gay bars once in a while. So I know a homophobe when I see one. Pat Buchanan ain't no homophobe, believe me.

Ezola B. Foster

#95. concept: like a forest ravaged by fire, i will grow back from this twice as strong.

L.J. Buchanan

#96. Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

Pat Buchanan

#97. The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an assault on the Second Amendment right of American gunowners to keep and bear arms.

Pat Buchanan

#98. There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

John Buchanan Robinson

#99. Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

John Buchanan Robinson

#100. It's a great life if you don't weaken

John Buchanan

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