The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
Pat Buchanan
As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.
Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?
Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.
What vital U.S. interest is imperiled in who comes to power in Podgorica, Montenegro? Why cannot Europe handle this problem in its own back yard?
What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?
The GOP's insoluble problem is that the multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual country they created with their open borders appears not to like the brand of dog food the party sells.
Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?
Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.
Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.
Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia's interests, he often succeeds in his defiance and goes unpunished and unrepentant.
Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.
He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.
Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
I'm a traditionalist. I'm a Latin mass Catholic, and I hold to traditional views of responsibility.
The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
If the GOP wants to know why it lost the Reagan Democrats, it is because the GOP exported their jobs to Mexico and China.
I opposed the World Trade Organization.
My job is not to make people happy; it's to tell the truth as I see it.
I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.
The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.
In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet - why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States?
Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?
Why is Assad more responsible for all the deaths in Syria than those fighting to overthrow and kill him?
We have no vital national interest in Syria's civil war.
The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence. Nixon appeared to have succeeded and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide.
Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.
Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
