Top 100 Buchanan's Quotes
#1. James Buchanan's niece: "He often worked just for work's sake.
Bruce Chadwick
#2. Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.
Dennis Miller
#3. If Daisy Buchanan's laugh is the sound of money, then a gimlet, well executed, is the color of it. It is just the thing when you are feeling impoverished, financially or spiritually.
Julie Powell
#4. Buchanan's constant crowing about his great victory only added to the perception that he was a clown; a blithering buffoon.
C.L. Gammon
#5. 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
#6. Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.
Edna Buchanan
#7. Yeah, that's what they claim...we'll accept you so long as you don't go out and get laid. Sucker you into a good ol' feeling of acceptance and then kick you harder and harder in the balls as they try and wean you off of your desires. I believed I could convince a dog to turn into a cat.
James Buchanan
#8. I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.
Larry Buchanan
#9. We were among Hoover's conduits to the American people,
Pat Buchanan
#10. With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.
Keisha Buchanan
#11. When everything in life is made to be broken----promises, dreams and hearts, all of them--it's the memories of perfect moments that get us through.
Joann Buchanan
#12. If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.
Pat Buchanan
#14. concept: the worst is over. everything's going to be okay now.
L.J. Buchanan
#15. Fred Ruskin barreled through the rain down Buchanan Street in his battered Pacer, the jar his dead wife had directed him to retrieve from his nephew's coffin bouncing in the seat beside him.
Joe DeRouen
#16. The secret impetus behind legalism is its competitiveness. The point is not just to win: it's to beat everyone else.
Mark Buchanan
#17. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.
Mark Buchanan
#30. What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple- a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law.
Pat Buchanan
#31. concept: me, sitting on top of a grassy mountain, taking deep breaths of fresh, pure air. i lay back and watch the clouds all day. there's no rush here
L.J. Buchanan
#32. AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature.
Pat Buchanan
#33. That's really easy for you to say, Jack. You've gotten everything you ever wanted.
Belinda G. Buchanan
#34. Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it.
Belinda G. Buchanan
#35. One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library.
James M. Buchanan
#36. Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan
#37. Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
Pat Buchanan
#38. concept: me, sailing through the milky way with many-coloured stars caught in my hair. there's no pain up here, only laughter and peace
L.J. Buchanan
#39. I have said from the beginning that Pat Buchanan left the Republican Party the day he questioned America's involvement in defeating Nazi Germany.
John McCain
#40. In those clouds I have seen aberrations-flecks of shimmering silver, orbs of color a shade more intense than their surroundings. I have seen them more than once, and I haves decided they are prayers, mine and everyone else's, too.
Cathy Marie Buchanan
#41. Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what makes it all worthwhile. That and the anticipation. It's addictive, because you never know when it will happen, but when it does, nothing in the world is as important.
Edna Buchanan
#42. Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?
Pat Buchanan
#43. He is racist, he's homophobic, he's xenophobic and he's a sexist. He's the perfect Republican candidate. [California Democratic Party chairman about Pat Buchanan.]
Bill Press
#44. I knew-exactly-the moment I fell for him. "When we're up on the mountain getting ready to go down for that woman's body, you remember, you smiled at me." It was like the sun hat touched the earth and been born in his body. "That's when I think I really lost my reason.
James Buchanan
#45. That's the Devil talking in you , Joe. To his way of thinking that's likely what was happening.
"No,"I let go my grip. No need to crush my own hard head when it was someone else's that deserved it.
"It's Joe talking.
James Buchanan
#46. I can do anything a man can do except get a hard-on--and that's only because I lack the equipment.
Marla Buchanan
#47. American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.
Pat Buchanan
#48. We need to do more than win an election or win the House or win the presidency, my friends: we need to make this beloved country of ours God's country once again.
Pat Buchanan
#49. Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.
Pat Buchanan
#50. Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers.
Pat Buchanan
#51. Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.
Mark Buchanan
#52. It's in the struggle itself that you define yourself.
Pat Buchanan
#53. 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
#54. [The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God.
Pat Buchanan
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.
John Buchanan Robinson
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Young men just don't drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#61. Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.
Pat Buchanan
#62. 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
#63. Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
James Buchanan
#66. When we hear phrases like 'New World Order,' we release the safety catches on our revolvers.
Pat Buchanan
#67. 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
#68. Sometimes i wish that I was a man so I could tell haters to 'blow me.
Marla Buchanan
#69. 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
#70. Pat Buchanan is so homo-phobic, he blames global warming on the AIDS quilt.
Dennis Miller
#71. 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
#72. Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.
Mark Buchanan
#73. Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.
Edna Buchanan
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Edna Buchanan
#78. You say to God, "I have never seen you provide for me."
God says to you, "You have never trusted Me.
Corallie Buchanan
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.
Edna Buchanan
#85. Do not wait for orders from headquarters! Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the guns!
Pat Buchanan
#87. Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.
Mark Buchanan
#90. McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
Pat Buchanan
#92. 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
#93. But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.
Mark Buchanan
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.
Edna Buchanan
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
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