JACK KEMP:
The continued use of economic sanctions is
strategically counterproductive for a new century. I
commend Pat Buchanan for taking this bold step to
open up a dialogue because I totally agree with his
assessment that economic sanctions 'sow the
seeds of hatred that will one day flower in acts of
terrorism against us, years after these sanctions
expire.'
12/17/99 - EMPOWER AMERICA PRESS RELEASE
ROBERT NOVAK:
Pat Buchanan's speech at Cato today was, I believe, from my standpoint,
the most thoughtful foreign policy speech I have heard this year. It isn't
isolationist. It isn't protectionist. It's saying, do we have any business meddling all over the world?
11/22/99 - CNN - Crossfire
CIRO SCOTTI - Senior Editor :
"[T]he tarring of Buchanan will go on. Because these days in America,
strong opinions are silenced with character assassination of the most
virulent variety. Call a man a racist or an anti-Semite or a Hitler-lover,
and you shut him up but good. You also shut down discourse, and that's
the lifeblood of a democracy."
09/30/99 - BUSINESS WEEK
Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz:
"[Buchanan's] unsentimental and even ruthless approach to foreign policy is identical to what Harry Truman proposed in 1941. The United States should not fight in the European conflict, the future President argued. Instead, America should encourage Germany and Russia to fight one another to exhaustion, thereby weakening the aggressive totalitarian threats of both Communism and Nazism..."
09/30/99 - NEW YORK TIMES
Robert Novak:
"There is a compelling tone about what Buchanan says that is lacking in his rivals from both parties. Even journalists who agree with him about nothing will stipulate that he is the best informed and most cerebral of the aspirants. Alone among the fourteen announced candidates for president, he has a comprehensive world view."
Sept/Oct 1999 - The International Economy
TONY BLANKLEY:
[I]t saddens one to see good men become careless with the facts. Sen.
John McCain, a man I know to be honest and honorable, let loose with a
terrible calumny against Pat Buchanan when he drummed Pat out of the
Republican Party on the false charge that Pat didn't think World War II
was a noble cause. Giving the honorable senator the benefit of the doubt,
he probably didn't have time to read Mr. Buchanan's book himself.
Presumably he relied on a misleading characterization from someone else.
09/29/99 - The Washington Times
DR. THOMAS SOWELL:
"Republican politicians are of course upset at the prospect that Buchanan's expected defection to the Reform Party jeopardizes the Republicans' best shot of regaining the White House in years. Even that, however, does not justify smear tactics..."
09/28/99 - COLUMN - THIS YEARS BIG SMEAR
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY:
"Critics are justified in disagreeing, but it hardly follows from the conjecture that Buchanan is moved by the anti-Semitic energumen....
To travel from Buchanan's provocative and irresponsible impetuosities of 10 years ago to the implied thesis that he didn't want to hurt Hitler because he admired him so, is intellectually embarrassing, and the genuine hero, John McCain, should desist from talking about the glorious achievements of the World War as if anybody who wished it might have been avoided was soft on Hitler."
09/28/99 - NEW YORK POST
RICHARD VIGUERIE - CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST:
"Pat needs to be in the debates to have impact. If Pat gets into the
debates as the Reform Party candidate, then he is going to be in double digits."
09/19/99 - Chicago Sun Times
AL HUNT:
"Mr. Buchanan has a thought-out, sincerely-held, cogent world view that doesn't have to checked and calibrated with consultants and pollsters ... [I]t may well be that a Buchanan candidacy is the only way important international issues are going to be addressed in the 2000 race."
09/09/99 - Wall Street Journal
TONY BLANKLEY:
"There is a gripping foreign policy debate going on in America right now…. One presidential candidate, Patrick Buchanan, is participating seriously in that great debate…. The GOP, both its elders and its rank and file, ought to listen to his argument-not to placate Mr. Buchanan, but because the nation would benefit from the debate he has so ably framed…. He comes to foreign policy as a national self-interest realist, not what some people unthinkingly call an isolationist."
09/09/99 - Washington Times
MARK SHIELDS:
"[Buchanan] has a world view that's consistent. He is candid. He's smart. He knows where he is and knows who he is."
09/04/99 - CNN's Capital Gang
MICHAEL COLLINS - RNC SPOKESMAN:
"Pat Buchanan clearly speaks to the soul of much of the
Republican Party, and that's what he did on Saturday [Iowa Straw Poll speech]. We need Pat Buchanan as a
contributing member of this party, just like we did when he was
writing speeches for President Nixon in the 1960s and for
President Reagan in the 1980s. Also, on a personal level, he's
a class act and a gentleman."
08/18/99 - THE WASHINGTON TIMES
PERRY ATKINSON - OREGON GOP CHAIRMAN:
"A Buchanan third-party run might not be
all bad for the GOP, because it would give Mr. Buchanan a
platform for his message and "force Bush to sharpen his own
message and delivery. Otherwise, let's face it, if G.W. [Bush] were to go before [Vice President Al] Gore in a debate, it would be real mush."
08/18/99 - THE WASHINGTON TIMES
CHRIS DEPINO - CONNECTICUT GOP CHAIRMAN:
"Pat Buchanan is a very intelligent man who articulates some issues that are good for the Republican Party. There are a
lot of union issues that Republicans would find a lot of common
ground on, particularly with the private-sector unions, and Pat
has articulated some strong ideas on that score and has been
an asset to the GOP in many ways.
08/18/99 - THE WASHINGTON TIMES
RICH BOND - Former GOP Nat'l Committee Chairman:
"I just think that nobody can tell Pat Buchanan what to do."
08/16/99 - CNBC - HARDBALL
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS - On the Iowa Straw Poll:
"It was a carnival. It was a lot like the state fair taking place
down in Des Moines. Lots of good food being served. For my
money, the best was in Pat Buchanan's camp -- Maurice's Barbecue
from South Carolina, the sweet corn. And people were having fun."
08/15/99 - ABC - THIS WEEK
ERIC ENGBERG:
"Patrick Buchanan ...really won the heart of the crowd."
08/15/99 - CBS
STUART ROTHENBERG:
"[Buchanan] gave a terrific speech, and he brought the house down ... That energy he got may be the boost that he needs to continue."
08/15/99 - CNN
CARL CAMERON - On Buchanan's speech at the Iowa Straw Poll:
"Pat Buchanan brought the GOP house down."
08/15/99 - FOX NEWS SUNDAY
MARGARET CARLSON:
"[Buchanan's] the best entertainer in the
race ... he's the only one who can get up and move the crowd
anymore"
08/14/99 - TIME
DAVID BRODER:
"Pat Buchanan will continue because Pat Buchanan is an irresistible force at this point."
08/15/99 - MEET THE PRESS
JUDY WOODRUFF on Buchanan's speech:
"[Buchanan] had the best line of the night."
08/14/99 - CNN
MIKE MURPHY - GOP STRATEGIST:
"Pat rocks the house, man."
08/14/99 - CNN
DANA MILBANK:
The 1,200 attendees [NH Straw Poll] ... fill the place with boos whenever Bush's name and his $36 million war chest are mentioned...Buchanan, amid chants of "Go third party," shouts: "We're not
into coronations up here." When the attendees cast their votes in a straw poll, Buchanan gets 58 percent
to Bauer's 21 percent and Smith's nine percent. Bush's support? One percent.
08/02/99 - THE NEW REPUBLIC
ON THE PROWL SECTION:
"Could Patrick Buchanan be mulling a switch to Ross Perot's Reform Party? Some inside-the-Beltway
politicos aren't ruling it out... "Buchanan easily beats out Lowell Weicker for the Reform nomination, then gets a national stage to debate Gore and Bush. It's win-win for conservatives ..."
08/01/99 - THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR
MARK STEYN:
"[I] predicted Pat Buchanan would win the New Hampshire
primary. Amazingly, he did -- leaving Dan Rather & Co. on the big night with a lot of redundant in-depth Lamar! profiles."
08/01/99 - THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR
LU GLENN - Registered Democrat:
"A chance to hear Buchanan speak for a
few minutes was worth $100 for a sandwich and some potato salad. Buchanan's a man a with strong integrity who does not sell his soul to anyone"
07/27/99 - Associated Press
MARK GLYPTIS - President Independent Steelworkers Union:
"We are extremely pleased to fully endorse and support the only presidential candidate who is genuinely concerned for the future of the American steel industry and American working people. Pat Buchanan has a history of standing up for American workers and today we stand united for Pat Buchanan ... We are urging our Union members and the entire Ohio Valley Community to now stand up for Pat Buchanan in any way they can".
07/26/99 - OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
BRUCE MORTON:
"[P]robably not in the August straw vote, but this coming winter when it's cold and
farmers may face bankruptcy, Iowans may notice a candidate who ...
preaches economic nationalism, standing up for your own. His name is Pat Buchanan."
07/25/99 - CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER
Andy Sneller - Fremont Apple Farmer:
"We must do something to save our farms, Buchanan has ideas."
07/21/99 - THE BOSTON GLOBE
Roslyn Personius - Mother, at the pro-life Shared Pregnancy Center in Lansing, MI:
"Since [Buchanan's] pro-life, I'm on his side ... He's got my vote."
07/21/99 - ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jim Robinette - Owner, Robinette's Apple Farm:
"I'm impressed, [Buchanan's] the first candidate we've heard who was really interested in agriculture."
07/21/99 - THE BOSTON GLOBE
Cecil Huggerd - Retired United Auto Workers Union Member:
To Pat Buchanan: "By God, we need you! ... [our] country needs a candidate fighting for American workers."
07/21/99 - ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEROY MARQUISS - Furniture Store Owner:
"One of our big concerns is how you turn a small business over to your offspring without putting a big
debt. Pat Buchanan supports the elimination of inheritance taxes, so we support him."
07/19/99 - ASSOCIATED PRESS
Joe Uliana - Columnist:
"Everyone seems to be wondering why there is even the need for a campaign, because this Texas Twister appears unbeatable. But there is one person who can bring Bush back to the pack and make a race of it -- and that person is not Steve Forbes. Pat Buchanan is the only hope for those Republicans who are opposed to the Bush candidacy and want to slow down this juggernaut..."
07/19/99 - NEWSMAX
Mary Ida Simoneaux - Hairdresser - Louisiana:
"I find him [Buchanan] sincere, and I like the way he wants to take care of the United States. The people, the majority of the people, want change. I'm going to vote for him."
07/18/99 - DALLAS MORNING NEWS
BARBARA STREISAND:
"Unfortunately, however, as long as people like Newt Gingrich and Pat Buchanan continue in public life, the fight
to codify gay marriages will be a tough battle to win."
07/17/99 - THE ADVOCATE
Richard S. Dunham - Columnist:
"Populist firebrand Pat Buchanan once again appears to be winning the battle of the right." -- Citing a New Hampshire poll that shows Buchanan moving into third place, ahead of Quayle, Keyes, Forbes and Bauer."
07/15/99 - BUSINESS WEEK
Lee Jones - New Orleans Metal Council:
"I can support Mr. Buchanan, I support anyone who supports workers."
07/14/99 - DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Joseph Johnson - Retired Machinist:
Mr. Johnson said he's a Democrat but could support Mr. Buchanan:
"He [Buchanan] doesn't need all the money, he just needs the votes."
07/14/99 - DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Dottie Watson - Louisiana State Director - Buchanan 2000:
"We're building a network of folks all over the state, that's where Pat's strength is: Grass roots. It's the people that vote, not the money. Everybody's talking about George Bush's money, money doesn't buy you love."
07/12/99 - ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bob Schieffer:
"Up until this point, you've [Buchanan] been the only Republican candidate that's really taken on George Bush."
07/11/99 - CBS - FACE THE NATION
Conversation between Ollie North and an Iowa State Trooper after he stopped Buchanan for speeding:
"I sure hope you're going to be kind to my friend, Pat," Mr. North said. "I will be very kind, we have to help the cause, don't we?" the trooper replied."
07/07/99 - THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Todd DuBois - 17 - Plans to cast his first presidential vote for Buchanan next year:
"The best thing about him [Buchanan] is he's very dynamic, he knows how to lead, and he approaches things with good common sense."
07/06/99 - THE CONCORD MONITOR
Steve Farrell - Managing Editor
of Right Magazine:
"The truth is, Pat Buchanan's beliefs are mainstream and sensible … These are the things most Americans believe in, and especially most Republicans. For those who take the time to read and reread what Pat Buchanan has in the past and does now teach, they will find logic, reason, and moral persuasion. They will find themselves, and then maybe they will conclude that it is not Pat Buchanan who should be abandoned, but the hypocritical leadership of the Republican Party who turned their collective back on their friend, their conscience, and their spokesman."
06/30/99 - NEWSMAX
Mary Rae Bragg - Reporting on
Buchanan's visit to an Iowa dairy farm:
"As a longtime NAFTA foe, Buchanan did not have to work hard to make friends among the farmers, whose products' worth has fallen steadily since the agreement's inception."
06/24/99 - TELEGRAPH HERALD
Tom Bolz - Bowling Green, Kentucky
Letter to the Editor:
"I have made up my mind not to vote for Texas Gov. George W. Bush. I made the mistake of voting for Bob Dole, a candidate who flip-flopped on the issues just as badly as President Clinton. I didn't like Mr. Dole, but the "Gutless Old Party" pushed him as the only viable candidate. Mr. Dole and the Republican leadership got us nowhere … I have been a longtime supporter of Pat Buchanan and would like to read more about his stand on the issues."
06/26/99 - THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Steve Kraske reporting on rally at
Johnson County Community College:
"The rally was attended by an estimated 600 people, including many who yelled encouragement to Buchanan ... [he took] the stage at Yardley Hall to chants of "Go, Pat, go."
06/26/99 - KANSAS CITY STAR
Margaret Carlson - Time Magazine:
"And it is a crusade, it seems on his [Buchanan's] part, for having taken on this populous cause."
06/24/99 - CNN INSIDE POLITICS
SEAN HANNITY to ANN STONE,
Chairman of Republicans for Choice:
"You know if you're successful, Patrick J. Buchanan ... all of them are finished with the Republican Party. They will no longer be a part of your party and that would mean that the Republican Party will no longer win national elections ... If the Republican Party gives up on these issues, I'm finished with the Republican Party and they're finished with the Republican Party ... So you will be successful at dividing a party and never winning a national election again ... Do you understand that?"
06/21/99 - FOX: HANNITY AND COLMES
BEVERLY CRUSE - Retired schoolteacher from
Mission Viejo, CA:
"He [Buchanan] hit on things that are very close to me. Bringing back morality and standards in the schools, and not blaming inanimate objects - guns - for the violence and hatred in our schools."
06/20/99 - ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
JIM BOEHM - North Dakota Farmer:
"I believe Pat is honest and that is important."
06/18/99 - THE BISMARK TRIBUNE
JESSE VENTURA - Minnesota Governor:
"[Pat Buchanan] has had a bearing on our country. He makes people think. He has strong convictions."
06/17/99 - MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
DANE SMITH - Staff Reporter:
"Ventura and Buchanan both have reputations as pugnacious and outspoken populists."
06/17/99 - MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
LINDA FELDMANN - Staff Writer:
"Interest in Bush extended beyond those who may vote for him… [Martin Cameron, a retired Air Force man from Portsmouth] … declared himself finally to be a firm supporter of conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, because of his opposition to free trade..."
06/16/99 - THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
JESSE VENTURA - Minnesota Governor:
"I think he's [Buchanan] a fellow that speaks his mind."
06/16/99 - ASSOCIATED PRESS
BILL O'REILLY:
"…in a debate between George Bush and Pat Buchanan, I'm putting my money on Buchanan."
06/16/99 - FOX - THE O'REILLY FACTOR
IAN SWANSON - Staff Reporter:
"In Bismarck and Medora, Buchanan drew applause and cheers from supporters by saying he would appoint conservative judges to the U.S. Supreme Court who would overturn Roe vs. Wade… The large crowds at appearances in North Dakota seemed to give Buchanan a shot in the arm. He said it was astonishing to see an overflow crowd of 200 pack into a hotel meeting room for a campaign speech seven months before the first primary contests"
06/14/99 - THE GRAND FORKS HERALD
JOHN HOCKENBERRY - MSNBC:
"I think Pat Buchanan speaks very articulately about where Kosovo fits into history, America being at a crossroads concerning world trade or focusing on its own domestic economy. I think that's a very relevant issue right now and no other candidate is really speaking to it."
06/14/99 - THE HOTLINE
DAVID BRODER - The Washington Post:
"He [Buchanan] knows how to deliver a message."
06/13/99 - NBC - MEET THE PRESS
DEBBIE MACK - Rock Hill, SC Homemaker:
"He's real. He has a conscience. After all the recent tragedies, like Littleton, Colo., Pat is not ashamed to say we need more morals. He has never been ashamed to speak his mind. I believe in him. He has a well-formed conscience. He knows the truth, and he stands by it."
06/11/99 - THE HERALD - ROCK HILL, SC
STEVE LEER:
"... [Buchanan] He's on a crusade to save American jobs."
06/11/99 - THE GASTON GAZETTE - GASTONIA, NC
John Deere Factory Employee - Gastonia, NC - upon meeting Buchanan:
"I was a Democrat yesterday, but I'm going to vote for [Buchanan] you today."
06/11/99 - THE GASTON GAZETTE - GASTONIA, NC
BOB REAGAN - Republican Executive Committee - Sumter, SC:
"[I] would love to see Buchanan nominated. I don't support Bush, I don't know what he stands for. He is certainly not my favorite, I favor those who are conservative on the issues..."
06/10/99 - THE STATE - COLUMBIA, SC
SMOKEY FICKLING - Retired Coca-Cola Executive:
"Pat has more of my values than anyone..."
06/10/99 - THE STATE - COLUMBIA, SC
CATHERINE WESTERCAMP - Des Moines Homemaker:
"Buchanan is not afraid to stand up and say exactly what he believes in..."
06/09/99 - THE DES MOINES REGISTER
SENATOR BOB SMITH - GOP Presidential Candidate - Q & A Session:
Question: When it gets down to the nitty-gritty, will you support Buchanan? "If Pat Buchanan is the nominee of the party, I'll support him. Why don't you ask George Bush that and see what he says?..."
06/08/99 - NATIONAL PRESS CLUB TRANSCRIPT
JOE SCARBOROUGH - Congressman [R-FL] - On U.S. troops as Kosovo peacekeepers:
"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years. I've got to agree with Pat Buchanan..."
06/08/99 - FOX - THE CRIER REPORT
JON TALTON - Business Editor:
"Patrick Buchanan is emerging as the only Republican who stands for something..."
06/07/99 - THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
KATE O'BEIRNE - National Review:
"Pat Buchanan is the most talented guy in the race, no one on either side gives a better speech than Pat Buchanan or makes more intelligent points than Pat..."
06/05/99 - CNN's CAPITAL GANG
J. FREEDLEY HUNSICKER -- Maryland Attorney:
"The thing about Pat is that he generates more excitement than a lot of the others."
06/04/99 - THE PHILADELPHIA ENQUIRER
Mike Dorning - Washington Bureau:
"[C]onservative commentator [Pat Buchanan] has drawn heavily on themes of economic nationalism and a non-interventionist foreign policy in his past two insurgent presidential bids, each of which proved to be a powerful force in the early GOP primaries..."
06/02/99 - CHICAGO TRIBUNE
PAUL LEAVITT:
"Buchanan's speech at the National Press Club set him further apart
from the leading GOP contenders who have endorsed President Clinton's
war actions."
06/02/99 - USA TODAY
MARA LIASSON:
"Well, you know, I'll agree with Pat Buchanan on one thing ... I think there are a lot of things where George W. Bush sounds like Clinton and Gore."
06/01/99 - FOX REPORT WITH BRIT HUME
JOHN NICHOLS:
"With Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone's decision to give up the Democratic race because of health reasons, with House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt's endorsement of Gore, and with Jackson's decision to forgo the Presidential sweepstakes, there is no serious candidate in either party who is attacking NAFTA, GATT, the World Trade Organization, corporate mergers, or other factors that conspire to lower wages, weaken unions, reduce environmental protections, and diminish democracy. Except for Buchanan."
06/01/99 - THE PROGRESSIVE
TOM HUTSON - Former Balkans Diplomat:
"He's [Buchanan] right on this issue, he's been right from the beginning, and he was right even at the beginning of the Serbo- Croatian war, nailing Milosevic for what he is, and also the Serbs for what they did to the Croats."
06/01/99 - FOX REPORT WITH BRIT HUME
STEPHEN MOORE - Cato Institute::
"Somehow, Republicans have learned all the wrong lessons from the debacles of 1992 and 1996. Let's set the record straight once and for all: George Bush lost the election because he broke the GOP's first through 10th commandments -- Thou shalt never, ever raise taxes -- not because Buchanan broke the 11th. Buchanan's relentless attacks against Bush for his betrayal was an act of patriotism."
05/27/99 - INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL
ED ROLLINS - GOP Strategist:
"I have great admiration for Pat Buchanan. I think there's nobody in American politics that believes as deeply as he does in the causes that he believes in."
05/27/99 - MSNBC - HOCKENBERRY
JOHN B. JUDIS:
"At a time when Clinton and Representative Richard Gephardt are forming a new consensus in
favor of regulated free trade, popular opinion could tilt toward Pat Buchanan's protectionism."
05/24/99 - THE NEW REPUBLIC
MICHAEL D. McFARLAND - Letter to the Editor:
"If Pat Buchanan had been elected president in 1996, the United States would not be dropping bombs in Kosovo and Yugoslavia. If Pat Buchanan had been elected president, we would not be signing away American sovereignty through so-called free trade agreements like NAFTA. If Pat Buchanan had been elected president, taxes on income could be 50% lower by replacing that revenue with tariffs on foreign goods. If Pat Buchanan had been elected president, we would not be exporting manufacturing jobs as though they are expendable. I urge Valley Republicans to support Pat Buchanan, not another George Bush."
05/21/99 - THE FRESNO BEE
RICHARD WHEATLEY - Church Usher::
"I'd seen him [Buchanan] on 'Crossfire' and liked what he said. He's like I am, he's from the old school -- strong morals and a strong military."
05/21/99 - ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACK KENNY - Editor:
"Today there are a number of prominent Republicans who oppose, as Buchanan does, Bill Clinton's war on Yugoslavia. But where were they in late 1990 and early '91, when President George Bush, on the strength of a U. N. resolution, claimed the right to take this country to war with Iraq without the approval of Congress? Buchanan was virtually alone among Republicans in opposing the transfer of this nation's war-making authority from the Congress of the United States to the Security Council of the United Nations. The others were actively engaged as cheerleaders for the 'New World Order'."
05/19/99 - THE UNION LEADER
KEN EGAN - Executive Director of the NH GOP:
"Pat's playbook really hasn't changed. He doesn't waffle. People know what he believes in..."
05/18/99 - THE BOSTON GLOBE
MAGGY SIMONY - Merideth, NH - Reform Party Supporter:
"Buchanan is the only leading candidate who understands the long-range impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement and other policies that have led to huge trade deficits. To me, he's like Winston Churchill at the beginning of World War II, he's the only one who really understands what's going on in the world when it comes to trade."
05/18/99 - THE CONCORD MONITOR
JAMES HOFFA - President, Teamsters Union:
"Pat Buchanan is the only one who discusses NAFTA in a meaningful way."
05/17/99 - THE CHICAGO SUN TIMES
JESSE JACKSON to Pat Buchanan:
"Pat, you seem to be the only presidential candidate on the Republican side talking about worker issues."
05/16/99 - CNN - BOTH SIDES
MARJORIE BLAKELY - Chairman, VA Young Republicans on Buchanan's straw poll win::
"Pat Buchanan is a big supporter of Virginia Young Republicans and the straw poll results show he is very popular with Republican youth."
05/15/99 - VA YOUNG REPUBLICANS PRESS RELEASE
HELLE BERING:
"A more Buchananite view of the U.S. role in the world is gaining a respectability that it did not use to have on Capitol Hill."
05/12/99 - WASHINGTON TIMES
CHAD SELWESKI:
"In a field of crowded, cautious presidential contenders, it's fun to have Pat Buchanan, the straight shooter ... You may not agree with his stance. But you always know where he stands ... While some candidates, particularly GOP front-runner George W. Bush, give mealy-mouthed answers to questions about Kosovo or Columbine High, Buchanan is quick to fire off a response that's straight and to the point"
05/11/99 - THE MACOMB DAILY
SEAN PAIGE:
"Anchoring the nationalist wing of the Republican Party is Patrick Buchanan, who calls the Kosovo
operation "a bridge too far" for U.S. forces."
05/10/99 - INSIGHT MAGAZINE
MIKE GLOVER:
"Pat Buchanan has a track record that appeals to conservatives, and showed himself
capable of building a solid organization..."
05/09/99 - ASSOCIATED PRESS
MATT WOODY:
"Buchanan also has charm and charisma that don't always translate to the tube but are unmistakable in person ... Even more, Buchanan has issues that set him apart from the other GOP candidates"
05/08/99 - THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
JOEL CONNELLY:
"Buchanan is a candidate who does not hesitate to tell you which side he is on."
05/03/99 - THE SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER
MICHAEL RUST:
"Many presidential hopefuls seemed hesitant about sticking their toes in the rhetorical current [on Kosovo]. One exception was commentator-turned-candidate Buchanan..."
05/03/99 - INSIGHT MAGAZINE
PAUL A. GIGOT:
"In the debate [Kosovo] between Pat Buchanan and John McCain, more and more Republicans are siding with Peacenik Pat."
04/30/99 - WALL STREET JOURNAL
JAMES M. KLURFELD - Editor:
"If there is one person I have found myself in constant disagreement with over the years it's Patrick Buchanan... So you can imagine my shock this past Sunday morning as I listened to Buchanan debate Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) -- a man I admire -- on "Meet the Press" about the war in Kosovo and found that I agreed more with Buchanan than Lieberman. A lot more."
04/29/99 - NEWSDAY
Editorial: "Yes, Buchanan is Right About Kosovo Policy Flaws"
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY
"Whatever one's reservations about Pat Buchanan for President, you've got to acknowledge the true grit of his rhetoric ... it is 100-proof pleasure to hear a presidential candidate speak out so plainly on foreign-policy questions."
04/24/99 - THE NEW YORK POST
NEAL GILBERT:
"I think Pat Buchanan represents a segment of the population that has essentially been abandoned by both of the major parties. This segment consists of blue-collar men and women who retain a strong sense of traditional morality. They are people who are loyal to this country, and expect the same out of their government ... Above all else, they understand that all human life, whether it's an unborn baby, a disabled man or an elderly woman, has unmeasurable value. These are the people that both the Republican and Democratic parties have left behind. These are the people who will rally to the side of Pat Buchanan. The only candidate who still sees them as an important part of America."
04/23/99 - THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
TOM DELAY, House Majority Whip:
"I was listening to Pat Buchanan -- he's absolutely right, it's the culture war." [Speaking about the Colorado massacre]
04/23/99 - THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW
JUDY WOODRUFF:
"Among presidential candidates, perhaps no one had stronger words on the killing than conservative commentator Pat Buchanan. To him, the incident was proof positive of the decline of American culture."
04/22/99 - CNN'C INSIDE POLITICS
ADELE N. STAN:
"What the Democrats lack is conviction--the conviction to take real risks with new ideas. In the last presidential election, pundits and polls alike were awed by the ability of . . . Pat Buchanan to do so well in the early running. He did so by sticking his neck out, by putting out ideas."
04/22/99 - INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL
KATHRYN LINDGREN:
"[Buchanan] supporters in North Dakota are as loyal and committed to Buchanan as he is to the United States and its people. Buchanan draws support from Reagan Democrats and conservative Republicans, and farmers, who - pressed by low market prices for their crops - are listening to his "protection for farmers" message."
04/22/99 - THE FARGO FORUM
DAVID L. HAASE:
"Patrick J. Buchanan owns the kind of rip-snortin', rootin'-tootin', ride-to-the-sound-of-the-guns, talking-out- loud-to-yourself-in-broad-daylight political site that other presidential candidates can only dream of."
04/22/99 - THE NATIONAL JOURNAL
SANDY GRADY:
"They fear such a harsh, yes-or-no gamble [Congress declaring war]. Too many Republicans, driven by the new isolationism ... could embarrass them. The GOP pacifism was encapsuled by 2000 candidate Pat Buchanan: 'Who cares which flag flies over Pristina?'"
04/20/99 - PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
GAIL COLLINS:
"It is true that the field is split on what to do about Kosovo, but the avowed opponents of American involvement are all long, long, long shots like Pat Buchanan ... The isolationists get more than their share of attention because their leading light is so eminently loud and quotable."
04/19/99 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
GLORIA BORGER:
"If Republicans intend to continue to claim superiority on foreign policy, the voters deserve to know what their candidates think--or the Democrats will do it for them. After all, there's so much good material to work with, even beyond Buchanan's righteous isolationism."
04/19/99 - US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT
GLORIA BORGER:
"A humanitarian crisis has erupted. And the Republicans? Save for the predictable isolationism of Pat Buchanan ... they're flummoxed -- and it's gone from bad to worse."
04/19/99 - US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT
JACOB HEILBRUNN:
"Today, Buchanan appears to have won the war [on nationalism] without firing a shot."
04/19/99 - THE NEW REPUBLIC
CRAIG R. WHITNEY:
"At the same time, some of the loudest advocates of staying out of Kosovo are conservative Republican cold-war hawks like Patrick J. Buchanan. In the Washington Post last week, he wrote that "America must retrench and rearm," and not go "marching into the Big Muddy," a phrase last heard on the lips of Pete Seeger in the days when anti-Vietnam demonstrators tried to levitate the Pentagon."
04/18/99 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
GERARD BAKER:
"His [Alan Greenspan] remarks seemed addressed ... at isolationist politicians in the US, such as Patrick Buchanan, the populist firebrand contender for the Republican party's presidential nomination in next year's election."
04/17/99 - THE FINANCIAL TIMES - LONDON
RUSH LIMBAUGH:
[Paraphrase] "This just in folks -- a one sentence news alert! I don't know who sent it, or where it is from...but this just in...Greenspan says he has concerns about rising protectionist sentiment in the U.S.... What that means is: Pat Buchanan shut up!...you are making the markets unstable ... panic time on Wall Street..."
04/16/99 - RUSH LIMBAUGH RADIO SHOW
WILLIAM BENNETT, CO-DIRECTOR, EMPOWER AMERICA:
"I'm not part of the Buchanan wing of the Republican Party. I'm an internationalist."
04/16/99 - CNN INSIDE POLITICS
TOM ROESER:
"Let this be my prediction: Young Bush can't cut it. He has a glass jaw and will be knocked out by Pat Buchanan ... in the first round."
04/16/99 - CHICAGO SUN TIMES
REUTERS:
"Buchanan drew cheers from an overflow crowd, mainly oilmen, that filled the lobby of the Petroleum Club in Midland [Texas}."
04/15/99 - FOX NEWS
MICHAEL TACKETT:
"[On Kosovo] Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan has taken the most dramatically different approach from the Clinton administration, calling for a complete withdrawal of U.S. forces."
04/15/99 - THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
SAM ATTLESEY:
"Mr. Buchanan drew repeated bursts of applause from about 700 Permian Basin residents gathered at a VFW hall in Odessa."
04/15/99 - DALLAS MORNING NEWS
SAM ATTLESEY:
"Campaigning in Midland and Odessa - where Gov. George W. Bush grew up and later began an oil career - Mr. Buchanan had only nice things to say about his potential Republican rival."
04/15/99 - DALLAS MORNING NEWS
TOM CARMAN - OWNER - PERMIAN OIL PRODUCERS:
"I'm going to support anybody who is for the oil and gas industry, I like his [Buchanan's] politics."
04/15/99 - DALLAS MORNING NEWS
RUBEN RAMIREZ - PRES. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS:
"[I] voted for Bush's re-election as governor last year, but now ... [I'm] open to voting for Buchanan for president because he is talking about taking actions that will help average oil field workers."
04/14/99 - HOUSTON CHRONICLE
R.G. RATCLIFFE:
"More than 700 oil field workers who fear losing their jobs to low prices and foreign imports warmly applauded Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan as he promised Wednesday to restore America's "energy independence through oil import fees."
04/14/99 - HOUSTON CHRONICLE
GERALD F. SEIB - On those who oppose the war in Kosovo:
"That sentiment was given voice with brilliant brevity by GOP presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan in an op-ed piece opposing the Kosovo bombing in yesterday's Washington Post."
04/14/99 - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
RON FOREST - PUBLISHER - PERMIAN BASIN OIL AND GAS MARKETER:
"Buchanan is on the right track. This is not just about oil. This is about every industry in our nation and our ability to be independent from what other countries decide to do. Buchanan is about putting America first, and that is something that people down here can relate to. Haven't we bought enough Iraqi oil?"
04/14/99 - ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLAYTON WILLIAMS - OILMAN; FORMER GOP GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE:
"Buchanan struck a chord with his audience. He probably doesn't understand the industry more than any of the others [politicians] do, but Buchanan does understand the hurt and the pain the industry is going through right now, and that can go a long way. He's basically throwing a line to a drowning man."
04/14/99 - ASSOCIATED PRESS
MICHAEL R. BESCHLOSS:
"For the first time since the Cold War, Americans are suggesting that their choice in next year's presidential election may hinge on the candidate's views about America's role in the world. Buchanan has seized one end of the spectrum, insisting that Kosovo is not our fight."
04/14/99 - SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
JAMES R. ZOGBY - ARAB-AMERICAN INSTITUTE:
"Pat Buchanan ... is one of the leading spokespersons for the isolationist trend. He also champions traditional social morality and protectionism. Mr. Buchanan’s view on the war is quite direct: U.S. armed forces should not go into action unless American honor, American citizens or vital American interests are at stake ... The Republican criticisms of the war might be dismissed by some as simple partisanship but it is more than that. There is a deep current of nationalism and isolationism that has been exposed."
04/14/99 - LEBANON DAILY STAR
MARY MATALIN:
"Pat Buchanan is so eloquent he doesn't need as much money as other candidates to attract coverage."
04/13/99 - ATHENS BANNER HERALD
SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN:
"I admire Pat Buchanan's position. Like you say, [with] Pat, you know where he stands."
04/13/99 - CNBC HARDBALL - CHRIS MATTHEWS
E.J. DIONNE - WASHINGTON POST:
"Pat Buchanan is an anti-interventionist, has been ever since the Cold War was over...[his]positions are rooted in something."
04/13/99 - CNN INSIDE POLITICS
JAMES CARNEY - TIME MAGAZINE - On staying out of Kosovo:
"Pat Buchanan's the most articulate and forceful spokesman for that."
04/13/99 - CNBC'S HARDBALL - CHRIS MATTHEWS
MICHAEL RUST:
"[S]ome establishment Republicans privately worried that protracted U.S. involvement or abject U.S. failure could boost the prospects of such longtime anti-interventionists as Patrick Buchanan."
04/13/99 - INSIGHT MAGAZINE
CIRO SCOTTI:
"[T]he one runner in the Presidential pack least likely to shed a droplet of red, white, and blue blood is Pat Buchanan."
04/08/99 - BUSINESS WEEK
MARY DEJEVSKY:
"Aside from a ... group of conservatives, led by Pat Buchanan, who have said from the outset that no US interests are at stake in Kosovo, the majority have twisted and turned through a series of misjudgements to the point where they are lined up, more or less, behind the toughest possible line on Slobodan Milosevic."
04/08/99 - THE INDEPENDENT - LONDON
JOHN DICKERSON - TIME MAGAZINE:
"When he [Bush] gets knocked off stride he has some difficulty, and so what Pat Buchanan's going to do next week is go deep into the heart of Bush country. He's going to Midland Texas, where the oil folks down there have been hit hard by cheap foreign oil. And he's going to say, even perhaps without mentioning the Governor's name, he's going to bring up these kinds of issues that the Governor may not want to talk about: price of foreign oil, U.S. dependence on foreign oil and what it's doing to these workers."
04/07/99 - CNN'S INSIDE POLITICS
VIN WEBER - SEN. JOHN MCCAIN'S POLITICAL ADVISOR:
"Only one other Republican candidate had helped his cause during the [Kosovo] conflict: Patrick J. Buchanan. He has been lucid and coherent and forceful about the opposite view."
04/07/99 - THE WASHINGTON POST
ALAN MURRAY - WSJ WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF:
"Foreign policy was a great issue for the Republicans during the Cold War. But today the party is badly split. And you see that most clearly in the statements coming out by Pat Buchanan, who is saying get out of there, it's not in the national interest, we shouldn't be there."
04/07/99 - CNBC
DON FEDER:
"Buchanan is equally committed to traditional values, but trade and sovereignty are his passions."
04/07/99 - THE BOSTON HERALD
BILL SCHNEIDER:
"The [60's] peace movement is leading the war. And for liberals who oppose the war, they don't have any Pat Buchanan to speak for them.
04/07/99 - CNN'S INSIDE POLITICS
STEPHEN DUPREY - NEW HAMPSHIRE GOP CHAIRMAN:
"Buchanan never had a strong organization here, even when he won. Pat wins because he has a good message."
04/06/99 - THE WASHINGTON TIMES
GRETCHEN COOK:
"Conservative commentator and candidate Pat Buchanan, true to his "America First" slogan, has also been vocal in his opposition to US involvement, 'US troops should not be placed in the cross fire of a European civil war'."
04/06/99 - AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
E.J. DIONNE JR.
"If Pat Buchanan starts talking about Kosovo as liberalism's war, he won't be all wrong."
04/06/99 - THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
AL HUNT:
"Pat Buchanan spoke to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco this week. I mean, that really says the revolution is over!"
04/06/99 - CNN's INSIDE POLITICS
TUCKER CARLSON:
"Well, he suddenly sounds like a lot of Republicans, or they sound like him. The Buchanan doctrine is like a virus; it's catching."
04/06/99 - CNN'S CROSSFIRE
BILL O'REILLY:
"Look, you ask Pat Buchanan a question, whether you like him or not, you're gonna get the answer right between your eyes . . . You ask Elizabeth Dole a question, forget it. You're never gonna get an answer."
04/05/99 - FOX NEWS - O'REILLY FACTOR
CHRIS MATTHEWS:
"Help me, help us to understand why people on the right like Buchanan -- Pat Buchanan
and his Brigades . . the conservative right, the real conservative right, are saying, stay out of this [Kosovo]."
04/05/99 - CNBC'S HARDBALL
RICK BERKE - NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER:
"I think every time he's [Bush] spoken out on some major touchy issues like abortion and gay rights, things like that, he's gotten in trouble, gotten hammered on the left and hammered on the right. . . And some of them are even saying -- like Pat Buchanan said the other day, look, this is matter of war and peace, life and death. If he's running for president he better be ready and have something to say about it."
04/05/99 - CNN'S INSIDE POLITICS
JAMES HOFFA - PRESIDENT, INT'L BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS:
"I will tell you an interesting thing, Pat Buchanan is talking about jobs in America. No other candidate's talking about that."
04/04/99 - CNN'S BOTH SIDES
AL HUNT:
"It is the internationalist or the interventionist against the nationalist or the isolationist, if you will, and I think what's really interesting in the debate today, with war as a backdrop, is that the three supposed Republican frontrunners -- George W. Bush, Elizabeth Dole and Steve Forbes -- are non-players, they are also-rans, and this debate is being led by two people. Pat Buchanan ... has a coherent view and has made the case -- 'this is not in America's interest'."
04/03/99 - CNN'S CAPITAL GANG
ALBERT HUNT:
"Pat Buchanan [is right] on the mark when he talks about Mr. Bush's waffling: 'You ought to voice your opinion on whether Americans ought to fight and die in the Balkan Peninsula. I think it's a requisite of leadership'."
04/01/99 - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL:
"What a catastrophe this is turning into. . .The day before we started bombing, the Kosovo conflict was a civil war, within Serbian territory in which several hundred had died. The day after, our bombing had turned it into the very sort of regional conflict we'd claimed we were trying to avoid. You'd think Clinton and his friends were working for the 'Committee to Elect Pat Buchanan President'."
03/31/99 - NEW YORK PRESS
THOMAS OLIPHANT:
"The temptation in politics, meanwhile, has been to ascribe the ideas and beliefs grouped under the concept of America First solely to its 1991 progenitor, Pat Buchanan. Again, bad idea. . . For one thing, this minimizes the large impact Buchanan has had on the party since he embarrassed George Bush two election cycles ago. The fact is that Buchanan's foreign policy views have been ascendant for some time. And this month, in the days leading up to the bombing, it was the majority view."
03/30/99 - THE BOSTON GLOBE
WILLIAM HAGUE - BRITAIN'S TORY LEADER:
"Conservative parties now are going through a common struggle to adapt.... In Canada, France and Australia, conservative leaders face challenges from powerful nationalist voices in the mold of Pat Buchanan."
03/25/99 - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
JUDY WOODRUFF:
"Republicans Winning War of Web Sites: The best sites belong to the Republicans. Pat Buchanan's gopatgo2000 has menus that are well-presented, linking to his stands on issues, upcoming events and instructions on joining his Internet Brigade."
03/20/99 - CNN'S INSIDE POLITICS
NANCY DUNNE:
"Pat Buchanan, the firebrand economic nationalist and Republican presidential candidate, this week sent a letter to every House Republican urging support for the [Steel Protection] bill in the name of former President Ronald Reagan. Mr. Reagan imposed steel quotas, which continued through the 1980s."
3/18/99 - FINANCIAL TIMES - LONDON
TONY KARON
"Wall Street may be booming and the overall employment numbers holding steady, but the U.S. has shed more than 300,000 manufacturing jobs over the past year. Wednesday's victory will boost Buchanan's guerrilla campaign in the Republican primaries."
03/18/99 - TIME
TONY KARON:
"Lock-and-load bipartisanship was the order of the day on Capitol Hill Wednesday ... Ignoring warnings that the protectionist measure violates U.S. free-trade obligations under World Trade Organization agreements, 91 Republicans followed Pat Buchanan's call to mutiny."
03/18/99 - TIME
ALISON MITCHELL
"Pat Buchanan, the G.O.P. Presidential aspirant who has challenged the party's establishment, wrote to House Republicans on Tuesday urging them to support the bill to 'regain the loyalty of working Americans'."
03/18/99 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
PAT BUCHANAN - TOASTING THE PRESS:
"For what you have done to me, may the devil chase you so far over the mountain that God Himself needs a telescope to find you."
03/18/99 - "WILD IRISH BREAKFAST" - THE NASHUA TELEGRAPH
"Presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan summed up the crisis ... with the beautiful simplicity of sunlight: "It took just an afternoon to fire the entire travel office of the White House over a false charge," he said. "But it took three years to remove someone who allegedly transferred the most vital secrets since the Rosenbergs."
03/17/99 - THE NEW YORK POST
PAT BUCHANAN ANSWERS THE BIG QUESTION:
What will be your first act if elected president?
Pat Buchanan: "Probably turn to Bill Clinton and read him his Miranda Rights!"
03/15/99 - MSNBC's EQUAL TIME
DOUG BANDOW:
"Patrick Buchanan's entrance into the 2000 presidential race ensures there will be more than a saccharin discussion of "compassionate conservatism." Blunt and pugnacious, Mr. Buchanan will bring up foreign policy issues that no one else addresses."
03/11/99 - THE WASHINGTON TIMES
DAVID S. BRODER:
"Buchanan was genuinely affected by the stories he heard in 1992 from New Hampshire families struggling with the threat and reality of layoffs and worried about keeping their homes and health care during the last recession. The ever-stronger populist strain in his rhetoric goes back to those conversations."
03/10/99 - THE WASHINGTON POST
E.J. DIONNE, JR:
"In the Republican Party, Buchanan will be an irritant to Republicans who would shave the hard edges off the party's philosophy and fashion a modulated conservatism that can compete in the pastel politics of the Clinton era ... But Democrats have something to fear from Buchanan, too. He appeals to a core Democratic constituency whose voice matters less and less in party affairs, the blue-collar industrial workers whose lost jobs are the price of the benefits others receive from free trade."
03/09/99 - THE WASHINGTON POST
TOM RATH - LAMAR ALEXANDER'S CAMPAIGN ADVISER:
"He [Pat Buchanan] retains a special relationship with his core voter that the rest of us are sort of jealous of."
03/09/99 - THE WASHINGTON POST
REP. JOHN SUNUNU:
"I don't think they vote for him [Pat Buchanan] just because there's a loss of jobs in, say, sewing blue jeans ... he strikes a chord with many voters with his broader theme of nationalism and what's viewed as a weakening of America's position in trade, a fragmentation of our foreign policy and a misapplication of American troops in intractable situations abroad."
03/09/99 - THE WASHINGTON POST
E.J. DIONNE JR:
"If you go to Pat Buchanan's site on the Web, you're greeted with this message, "Look Out Establishment, the Brigade is Back!."
03/09/99 - THE WASHINGTON POST
MARGARET CARLSON:
"You know, speaking of electricity in a room, Pat Buchanan has mega wattage. He is an exciting speaker. He doesn't need pollsters. His hot button, the hot button issues reside inside of him and, you know, he's like a Dorothy Day Catholic who really does feel the pain, unlike Clinton, of the people who aren't on the gravy train of the last few years and he communicates it beautifully. I mean even when you don't like what Pat Buchanan says, you like him and it's a great key to campaign in. The other thing is it's such a mean and lean campaign, you know, rechargeable cell phones and a list of 800 talk show radios and the guy's flying."
03/03/99 - CNN's CAPITAL GANG
ROBERT NOVAK:
"I think most of us still thought of Pat as a has been in presidential politics, that he should have stayed on "Crossfire" where he was doing very well. But only a couple of days on the stump and he, and you realize that he is a hell of a campaigner, much better than most of the other Republicans."
03/03/99 - CNN's CAPITAL GANG
AL HUNT:
"I think the Republican establishment, like they did in '92 and '96, is once again probably underestimating Pat Buchanan. They're letting their hopes triumph over their judgment. Pat Buchanan is tougher. He is more experienced and he's more comfortable with who he is and what he believes in."
03/03/99 - CNN's CAPITAL GANG
JOHN O'SULLIVAN:
"Of course, he [Buchanan] still will have less money than either Bush or Dole. But their campaigns will be packed with expensive speech-writers, opinion pollsters, media experts and advance men -- whereas Buchanan writes his own speeches, forms his own opinions, makes his own television ads and is driven around the country by his own wife, Shelley. Every Buchanan buck produces a disproportionately big bang."
03/01/99 - CHIGAGO SUN TIMES
