Suicide of a Superpower Quotes

“The difference between an optimist and a pessimist,” said journalist Clare Boothe Luce, “is that the pessimist is usually better informed.”
― Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

“When the faith dies, the culture dies, the civilization dies, the people die.”
― Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

“Where did China get that $20 billion? From consumers at Walmart and all of us who purchase goods made in China. That $20 billion is just 1 percent of the $2 trillion in trade surpluses Beijing has run up with the United States over two decades.”
― Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

“this is not the country we grew up in. This is a different country. And given where America is headed morally and culturally, we are not far from a day when traditionalist Catholics will be saying, “This isn’t my country anymore.”
― Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

“Christianity is a universal faith. Its death leaves a nation bereft of a unifying system of beliefs. In the absence of Christianity, individuals seek community in attachments like race, tribe, party, and ideology that must inevitably separate us.”
― Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

“We are trying to create a nation that has never before existed, of all the races, tribes, cultures and creeds of Earth, where all are equal. In this utopian drive for the perfect society of our dreams we are killing the real country we inherited — the best and greatest country on earth.”
― Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

“We borrow from Europe to defend Europe. We borrow from the Gulf states to defend the Gulf states. We borrow from Japan to defend Japan. Is it not a symptom of senility to be borrowing from the world so we can defend the world?”
― Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

“The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.”
― Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

“Are vital U.S. interests more imperiled by what happens in Iraq where were have 50,000 troops, or Afghanistan where we have 100,000, or South Korea where we have 28,000 — or by what is happening on our border with Mexico?”
― Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

“We may deny the existence of ethnonationalism, detest it, condemn it. But this creator and destroyer of empires and nations is a force infinitely more powerful than globalism, for it engages the heart. Men will die for it. Religion, race, culture and tribe are the four horsemen of the coming apocalypse.”
― Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

“[N]o nations with a massive debt has ever remained a great power.”
― Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

“There has been a precipitous decline in the character of our people. We are not the people our parents were. We are not even the people we used to be.”
― Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

“What in the name of patriotism are we doing to our own people?”
― Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?