Pat Buchanan

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.

Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits?

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?

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.

I'm a traditionalist. I'm a Latin mass Catholic, and I hold to traditional views of responsibility.

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.

Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.

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.

Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.

Undeniably, we were on God's side in World War II and the Cold War. But were we ourselves without sin in those just struggles?

Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.