Zitat des Tages von Pat Buchanan:
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.
Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
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.
Trump has raised the very issues I raised in the early '90s.
While our corporatists burn incense at the shrine of the global economy, Trump went to visit the working-class casualties. And those forgotten Americans in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin responded.
The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt?
What would be the political benefits to Obama of an amnesty? It could weld Hispanics to the Democratic Party, would be wildly popular with the ideological and Christian Left, and quietly welcomed by those Chamber-of-Commerce Republicans who have silently supported amnesty and secretly want immigration off the table in 2016.
If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.
Putin could no more survive returning Crimea to Ukraine than Bibi Netanyahu could survive giving East Jerusalem back to Jordan.
Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
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?
Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
How does the GOP repeal and replace Obamacare without cutting the benefits upon which millions of Americans have come to rely?
Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.
Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
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?
The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.
While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
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.
Candidate Trump held out his hand to Vladimir Putin. He rejected further U.S. intervention in Syria other than to smash ISIS.
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.
McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.
On right-to-life, see the Republicans flee from Todd Akin, who committed a gaffe while restating his support for what has been a plank of the Republican platform since 1980.
To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiwan, backed off Tillerson's warning to Beijing to vacate its fortified reefs in the South China Sea, and held out promises of major concessions to Beijing in future trade deals.
Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
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.
