Speech by Pat Buchanan Declaring Presidential Candidacy in Manchester (New Hampshire)

It is good to come home to New Hampshire. To come home to this state that hold so many cherish memories both for Shelley and for me and I want to make you all to the good people of New Hampshire. A solemn promise. God willing from today to the nation's first primary. I will raise my voice on behalf of those Americans who are not being heard and to offer my hand to all those who are not allowed to march in the great parade of American prosperity with this campaign. For. This campaign and I want to direct this to my friends back in Washington. I intend to redefine what it means to be a conservative in America. To reshape our party into the natural home for working men and women in the middle class of this country and to reclaim. And to reclaim the

destiny of our republic. From an administration that has squandered our inheritance and soiled its place in history. With each decade America becomes more addicted to the narcotic of cheap imports. The price of that addiction is the dismantlement of the mightiest industrial empire the world has ever seen. Piece by piece job by job factory by factory. It is being carted off to foreign soil. The yellow brick road at once took millions and tens of millions of poor and working Americans into the middle class is closing down. This is not an accident. It is a direct consequence of a deliberate effort to submerge our country in a global economy whence we shall never be truly free again. This highway on which we travel

ends in a dangerous trail and the toll is the death of American independence. Knapton dad had bequeathed us a trillion dollars in merchandise trade deficits our deficit in manufacture's alone last year. Two hundred billion dollars was 12 times the size of our shrinking trade surplus in farm goods. Taxpayers have been forced to underwrite Titanic bailouts of Mexico Russia Brazil Asia an administration that ran to the rescue of an Indonesian dictator who has on his hands the blood of a quarter of a million Roman Catholics turns a stone cold face to steelworkers in Ohio Pennsylvania and where in West Virginia as their dreams are buried under the devalued and dumped imports of Russia Brazil and Japan heartland industries are being sacrificed

to enrich a global elite that looks on workers not as fellow human beings but as units of cost and factors of production. What happened to the country we grew up in where we all cared about one another and we all went forward together. We need a new patriotism an America that puts country first. We need a new conservatism of the heart that puts people first and we need a new set of priorities where our party stands for something higher and greater than the bottom line on a balance sheet. American workers our brothers and sisters are not here to serve the financier's of some New World Order to those who call me a protectionist. I say without apology I will use the trade laws of this country and my authority as president to protect the jobs of our workers. The standard of living of our American

families the independence of my country and the sovereignty of the United States and no global authority will keep me from doing my job. As president of the United States. If I am elected America's trade and foreign policies will no longer be up for bid at White House coffees and find agents of influence will no longer be sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom. They won't get past the police guard at the White House gate and the Marine guards. At the White House gate. A decade ago when the Berlin Wall came down and freedom came to the captive nations of Eastern Europe Ronald Reagan was being toasted in Moscow for having been right about the evil empire.

A friendship had blossomed between us now on the brink of autocracy Russia spurns on the hand that tried to help it. Meanwhile China is a beneficiary of an administration policy of blind and craven appeasement. So China persecutes its dissidents and Christians threatens Taiwan's and steals our technology. It calls Beijing quote our strategic partner. China has been given our supercomputers and satellite technology and allowed to run up 200 billion dollars in trade surpluses. Giving it the hard currency to build and buy the missiles now targeted at U.S. troops in South Korea and U.S. Marines on Okinawa. If one day American technology is used to harm the best and bravest of America's young history will forever condemn

those who made this possible. So let me tell you what we shall do. I will sit down with the Chinese premier and I will tell him directly if you continue to impose a 40 percent tax on American exports if you continue to persecute Tibetans Christians and dissidents if you continue to target our sailors and marines with your rockets. You can take your made in China goods and go peddle them somewhere else because they are no longer welcome. Any United States of America. As for a strategic missile defense it shall be built and we shall complete the legacy of Ronald Reagan. For six years. This administration has been adding to America's global commitments as it slashed

away at America's defense. Since 1992 we have stretched NATO to the borders of Russia spread US troops all over the Balkans put CIA agents on the West Bank proclaimed a policy of dual containment in the Persian Gulf. Not one cold war commitment has been discarded. Yet is it Pyles commitment on commitment and engages in noisy bombast. This administration has presided over the hollowing out of the mighty armed forces built up under Ronald Reagan and George Bush under Clinton and Gore. America has mothballed more warships air wings Army and Marine divisions than it took to fight Desert Storm. It is time for the United States to reduce its commitments and rebuild its power. The armed forces are not some experimental laboratory for aging 60 radicals who loathed the military then and do not love her now. For. Half a century. We have willfully

and rightly defended Europe and Asia so that free nations could break bread at democracies table. It is their turn now to start picking up the tab. Bosnia and Kosovo are in Europe's backyard not ours. They not. We should police that blood soaked Peninsula. It has been said that the greatest mistake in politics is to stick to the carcasses of dead policies. It is not natural. It is not normal to have US soldiers occupy foreign lands in times of peace. America's armed services must not become the Hessians of anyone's new world order. We are the leader of the free world. We. Are the leader of the free world and a light unto the nations. But America's role in the 21st century should be to become again the arsenal of democracy and the strategic reserve of Western civilization not the policeman of the planet or the

social worker of the world. I stand today in the foreign policy tradition of Washington Jefferson Monroe Quincy Adams Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. When U.S. interests are threatened or citizens attacked or our honor impugned We ask no Nations permission to respond but we alone not un councils or European bureaucrats decide when and where Americans go into battle and when they do they will fight only under American command. An acting we act not for ourselves alone but for all mankind. Having conquered Soviet communism our great struggle in the new era will be for the preservation of our independence against the soft tyranny of global government. Wherever other nations stand up for

the right to be free and to be themselves we stand with them. They as we have a right to preserve their unique character and identity. America's Theodore Roosevelt said is not some polyglot boarding house for the world. This land is our land. This land is our home. One nation indivisible is what the Pledge of Allegiance declares and the millions of immigrants who have come here in recent decades to become part of the American family shall be welcomed as our adopted sons daughters brothers and sisters. But as they have a duty to learn we have a duty to assimilate them to teach them our heritage our customs our tradition our history our culture and our language. That is not happening. America. America. I regret to say is subdividing along racial and ethnic lines.

The melting pot no longer seems to work its magic hyphenated Americanism is making a comeback. School children are being taught in the language of the country they came from. Not the language of the country they came to public school principals in Los Angeles are being asked to leave because they belong to the wrong race or ethnic group. College students are resegregating and demanding graduation ceremonies only with their own Our politics reek of epithets as ugly as those were expunged decades ago. It is time for these divisions to end. For unless we go forward together we're not going forward at all. We need a moratorium on immigration and a national campaign of assimilation. To become. To become one nation and one people. Again we must insist that our newly adopted learn the language that is our mother tongue. The English language. To do

otherwise robs them of their fair chance at the American dream. All students must be introduced to American history and our unique culture to which all who have come here have contributed and all discrimination must be rooted out of government policy and the un-American practice of hiring preferring and promoting individuals based on race or ethnic origin must be abolished as long. As long as there are statute rules or regulations that decree that some are more equal than others. We are neither free nor equal. My friends we know from history that it is a natural tendency of government to seek power and never to relinquish it in our lifetimes. We have seen government grow to where it consumes 40 percent of family income. Not long ago that was called socialism in the year 2000. There is promise of a Republican president and a

Congress for the first time since the Eisenhower years the early Eisenhower years when I was in high school and that was a long time ago. Historic opportunity is at hand to restore the balance of constitutional power established by our founding fathers. The Supreme Court and all federal courts need to get back to the business of interpreting the Constitution and the laws and out of the business of rewriting the constitution and the law. That is not their role in a democratic republic. How we govern ourselves should be decided by elected leaders not anointed judges whether in the nation or right here in the state of New Hampshire. The first days of a new administration should see a return to constitutionalism a

rollback of federal power federal regulations and lower taxes like welfare poverty housing. Primary and Secondary Education programs should all be returned to the States and our internal revenue code should be ripped out by its roots and replaced with a fair simple tax system. Every single American can understand. It has been one of the great achievements of our Republican Congress that the books in Washington have been balanced. America's greatest deficit thus is no longer to be found in the federal budget. Look around though you'll find that deficit in a culture that has been polluted and poisoned in a moral deficit that has become America's great enemy within the White House where I spent eight years as assistant to three presidents

this temple of our civilization has been desecrated used to shake down corporate executives to live with the band and to the American people and as a place to exploit women the personal destruction of political rivals has been perfected to a high art. It is time to call down the curtain on this sorry soap opera in the White House and restore dignity to the national stage. And when when speaking of those left out and left behind Let us never forget the unborn the handicapped the sick the elderly the most vulnerable and the most dependent among us to whom some offer only the

abortionists knife or death to the lethal poisons of euthanasia and assisted suicide. We are a better people than this and we owe the great generation that brought us through World War to a more honored end to their good lives than deaths for the sake of our dignity as a nation and a people bled us once and for all. Close the door to this culture of death. And. Rely upon it. And I want you to rely upon something as long as Pat Buchanan is fighting in the arena. There will be at least one major political party in America that dares without apology to stand up for the rights of the innocent unborn. My friends we are the heirs of a great generation a generation of our mothers and

fathers who brought this country safely through the Great Depression and then through World War 2 I can yet recall as a boy she and my father go off to work three jobs a day to provide for a family growing to nine children so that every one of us would be sent to college to get the kind of education he had been denied. I can yet recall my mother's four younger brothers stop and buy that little house on Chestnut Street to say goodbye as he went off to fight Hitler's evil empire in Europe. They made their contributions to America's greatness and glory. And we too have contributed. There's our generation after all. It stayed the course that persevered and prevailed in the long trial I'd struggle against one of the most monstrous tyrannies the world has ever seen. But we are not done yet. We have one more contribution to make our duty. Our challenge is to fulfill America's promise to make sure one nation under God and one people again we're all regardless of color

creed gender or national origin have a fair shot at the American dream. It is our calling to recapture the independence and the lost sovereignty of the American republic. To clean up all that pollutes and poisons our culture and to heal the soul of America and to that end I declare my candidacy for president of the United States. Every. Morning. We say Mount up and ride to the sound of the guns. Thank you. For. The first time and.

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And if I hadn't grown a little bit about that much better in the industry is it right for you. Yes. We're not sure how you can use it as a result of your effort to do this. OK wait a second. The books are balanced between to say anything about using the size and scope of the federal government you know it's been a long time conservative Republican. Like I said I've got some good man programs secondary education programs. I will grant you the state governments. We will downsize the federal government. I think you can do away with any number of departments. But that's right during the speech. Sorry I got here late. How did you do that.

Well you know look the economy is doing very well. Grew at 6 percent in the final quarter. But let me say this. We also lost 250000 manufacturing workers farm it comes down to West Virginia. Not everybody's doing well. Move on to what you were in West Virginia. We're joined now by you with Debbie. Joanne from most likely this time you're down. Welcome home. All right thank you guys. Just a heads up for you. All right. Why do. These.

Firms. These. Are showing the first page. Of. The book. It's hard to see what you got here with Look the first time. Oh my goodness. This is a collector's off for you. Well for me I'll tell you what this is exactly what you need is folks reading this wonderful things why don't I sign it. All right what you feel. You can wish.

To. American history too. Mr. Buchanan How would you compare your reception in Washington reception to New Hampshire this time. The last time both both groups. Of media and the public is mad at the media. I think. We can probably go back and see