Pat Buchanan Presidential Announcement in Manchester

It is good to be back home again. Let me first introduce my wife Shelly. You all know. My. Sister. Bay. Let. Me. Calm down. Step two step behind. No need to be sorry my friend. You're not from New Hampshire. My friends they don't represent the people of New Hampshire. You know. I have friends. Now.

You know what we're fighting against in this country my friends. Let me say it again. It is good to be back home again. As you know. Shelley and I spent 10 wonderful weeks here in the winter of 1992 and we will never forget your generosity and your support. When we came up here to New Hampshire and you and I stood together to say to the national establishment of both parties turn around you're going the wrong way. We may have lost that nomination my friends but you and I have won the battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party. Four years ago. Four years ago we came here to say no to tax hikes

and no to quote a bill. And now every Republican says no to tax hikes and no to quote the bills and no to affirmative action. So we want first. To welcome the prodigal son's home to their father's house but we shall remind them. The Buchanan brigades are not lead by conservatives. We have borne the days he and we have labored in these vineyards from the very first hour and we stand here today to resume command of the revolution that we began here three years ago because we intend to lead that revolution to triumph and into the White

House in 1996. This campaign is not about yesterday. It is about tomorrow. It is about America's future. It is putting America forward to a dream of a constitutional republic. That first stirred in the hearts of the boys who stood their ground on the Lexington Green and the man who held the Concord Bridge. This campaign is about an America that once again looks out for its own people and our own country first. Four years ago. Three years ago when I came to New Hampshire I went up to the north country

on one of my first visits and I went up to that paper mill at the James River and it was a bad day just before Christmas and the workers at the plant many of them had just been laid off and they were sullen. They were angry and they didn't want to talk to me. So as I walked down that line of workers I will never forget. Men were sullen and angry and shook my hand and looked away. And one of them finally with his head down looked up and with tears in his eyes said save our jobs. And I rode back down to Manchester that night and I wondered what it was I could do. Well that factory worker. What are we doing my friends to our people. When I came back to Manchester that day we found out that the U.S. export import bank had just issued a very big loan for a new paper mill in Mexico.

What are we doing to our people. What is an economy for you if not so that workers and their families can enjoy the good life their parents knew so that incomes rise with every year of hard work and so that Americans once again enjoy the highest standard of living in the world. Isn't that what an economy is for my friends our American workers are the most productive in the world. Our technology is the finest. Yet the real incomes of American workers have fallen 20 percent in 20 years. Why are people not realizing the fruits of their labor. I will tell you because we have a government that is frozen in the ice of its own indifference a government that does not listen anymore to the forgotten men and women of this country who work in the forges and factories and plants and businesses of this country. We have instead

a government that is too busy taking the phone calls from lobbyists for foreign countries and the corporate contributions of the Fortune 500. I have not forgotten that man James River and I have come back to give him my answer here in New Hampshire when I am elected president of the United States. There will be no more Napp to sell out to the American worker. The.

More. We. Go. To. Those factory workers in the north country and if the small business men business women of this country. I say to you this campaign is about you. We are on your side. What ever happened to the idea of friends of one nation in one.

Whatever happened to the good old idea that all Americans of all races colors and creeds were men and women to whom we owed loyalty allegiance and love. What happened to the idea that America was family going forward together. When I was writing my column a couple of months ago I read a story from New York about fifty eight partners made in Goldman-Sachs each of whom the new partners had gotten the bonus of at least five million dollars that find one month later story Randi because profits were down at Goldman Sachs one thousand clerical workers were being laid off 1000 men and women at the lowest levels at Goldman Sachs. That was a shameful act of corporate greed. But let me tell you about another story down in La Grange Georgia.

I visited a textile plant there one of the most modern in America. Only the textile plant had been burned to the ground. All the employees were saved but the factory was in total ruin. And as the factory workers came into the assembly hall of the administration building they thought they were going to be told with all the others had been told now that the plant has burned will be moving on to Mexico or Taiwan. But the managers of the Millican plant came down from Smardon and they said to these workers six hundred of you are our family we have suffered a loss. Together every single worker in this plant. We're going to look for a new job for you. And beyond that we're going to build the brand new Millikin plant the most modern in the world right here on this site in LaGrange Georgia. And we want our workers to join together and help us build it. And in August it will rise again.

Every one of those workers will be kept back and brought back to his old job. Isn't this the idea of free enterprise. We Republicans and conservatives believe in. Isn't this the idea. Isn't that the idea. Is it one people working together that we must recapture. So I say to the workers and managers at that textile plant down on the Grange Georgia and all the other plants and businesses small businesses around America like that this campaign is about you this fight. Sure. We are Americans. And we Americans must also start recapturing our lost national sovereignty

the boys and men who stood at Lexington and at that Concord Bridge at Bunker Hill in Saratoga. They gave all they had at the land they loved would be free and independent and a sovereign nation. Yet today our birthright of sovereignty purchased with the blood of patriots being traded away for foreign money handed over to faceless foreign bureaucrats at places like the IMF the World Bank the World Trade Organization and the UN. Look how far we have gone a year ago two United States helicopters flying surveillance over northern Iraq were shot down by American fighter planes in a terrible incident of friendly fire. Captain Patrick McKenna the citadel I just visit commanded one of those every American aboard.

Q And when the story hit the news the vice president then visiting Marrakesh at the World Trade Organization issued a statement that said the parents of these young men and women and be proud their sons and daughters died in the service of the United Nations. Those young men and women didn't take an oath to the United Nations. They took an oath to defend the Constitution and the country we love. Let me say to you that Buchanan gets into that Oval Office as commander. No young man ever was an idol except under American officers and the plight of the. Let me say.

Let me say to those brave young patriots who have volunteered to serve in the armed forces of the United States to defend us our peace and security. This campaign is a lie. Look how far. Look how far we have gone rogue nations that despise America right now are plotting to build weapons of mass destruction and to buy or build the missiles to deliver them to our country. Get the United States of America remains naked. A missile attack. We have no defense. Why. Because a 20 year old compact with a cheating Soviet regime that has been dead half a decade prevents us from building our missile defense. Well that dereliction of duty ends the day I take the oath I will maintain I will maintain a military with the United States.

That is first on the land first on the seas first in the air first in space and I will not ask any Nations permission before I build a missile defense of the United States and to. Those Americans who have served this country in our wars from Europe to the Pacific from Korea to Vietnam. This campaign is about you. It is about never letting America's guard down again. What is the matter with our leaders. What is the matter with our leaders. Every year millions of undocumented aliens break our laws cross our borders and demand social benefits paid for with the tax dollars of American citizens. California is being bankrupt. Texas Florida and Arizona

are begging Washington to do its duty and defend the States as the Constitution. When I was in California in 1992 I spoke on this issue in San Diego. A woman came to the sheriff's office uninvited and asked if she could join me at the press. I said why. She said I had a boy a teenage boy who was killed in an automobile accident by drunken drivers who were on a spree who had walked into this country had no driver's license and did not belong here. Three months ago I talked in the same city of San Diego to a young Border Patrol agent. He had been decorated as a hero. He showed me the back of his head. It was scar all over him. Illegal aliens had crossed the border. He went to apprehend them and they waited to trap him and when he walked into their trap they smashed his head with the back of a rock and came to kill him.

And only when he took out his gun and fired in self-defense. Did his friends come and save his life. Yet our leaders now timid and fearful of being called names do nothing. Well they have not invented the name. I have been called. So like our little visitors this morning. The custodians of political correctness do not frighten me. And I will do what is necessary to defend the borders of my country.

If it means putting the National Guard all along our southern frontier. The people of California Florida Texas and Arizona being bankrupted by the cost of Washington's dereliction of duty to that brave border patrol agent and the men and women who serve with him to that woman who lost her boy because her government would not do its duty. His campaign and as we defend our country from threats from abroad we shall fight and win the Cold War for the soul of America because that struggle is about who we are what we believe in the kind of people we shall become. And that struggle is being waged every day in every town and schoolroom of America. When you and I many of us were young public schools and Catholic schools Christian schools Jewish schools

instructed children in their religious heritage Judeo-Christian values what was right and what was wrong. We were taught Reagan's goodness. This land we call God's country in which we are a whole fortunate to live when I was a little boy three years old three and a half years old my mother's four brothers one by one came down to our house said goodbye and we took them to the bus station with the train station send them off to Europe and we got reports from places like you and sis and they all came home. But in our school days occasionally we would go out to play. When I was six years old 5 years old in first grade and there would be a short ceremony or some fellow with the ball.

And that's what we've been taught and that's what we live with today. Too many schools our children are in their minds are being poisoned against their Judeo-Christian against America's heroes and against American history against the values of the eternal truth that do not change the Old and New Testament have been expelled from our public schools and our children are being indoctrinated in moral relativism and in the propaganda and Western parents everywhere are fighting with their children to the mothers fathers. Let me say this can't fight. Fight or flight. You have my solemn word. I

shut down. As for of education and parental rights. What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his immortal soul. That is true also of nations no matter how rich and prosperous we may become and material things we cannot lose this battle for the heart and soul of America. For us to Tocqueville said long ago America is a good country and America is a great country because she is a good country but if America ever ceases to be a good country she will cease to be a great country. Yet today's American culture movies television magazines music is polluted with lewdness and violence museums and art galleries welcome exhibits

Lockhart patriotism and our faith old institutions and symbols of the heroic and tragic past. Columbus Day to the Citadel South Carolina graduated Captain McKenna Christmas carols in public schools the southern war memorial. They are all under assault this campaign to malign America's heroes and defile America's past has as its turn America's children against what their parents believe and what we love but because our children are our future. We can't let that happen. We can't walk away from this man. And I pledge to you I will use the bully pulpit to the presidency of the United States to the full extent of my power and ability to defend American traditions and the values the family and country from any and all directions. And together we

will chase the purveyors of sex and violence back beneath the rocks. When I say. To those who want to make our country America the Beautiful again and I mean beautiful in every way. This campaign is about you and the history of nations we Americans are the Freedom Party. We are the first people the only nation ever dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with the unalienable right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and nothing. And nothing especially not this crowd that came in earlier. Nothing's going to stop

us from going forward to a new era of greatness in a new century about to began and we can go to that era of greatness. If we go forward together so to these ends and for these purposes I humbly but proudly declare my candidacy for the presidency of the United States. You.

Support. That. Go. Around. A. Little. More. Morality. We have. The support of a. 92. He.

Didn't. Mention pro-life in the speech you're disappointed. I felt like at the time he invited me. To. Speak to. This. I. Guess. To be saying. Excuse me. If I could ask you what you thought of his speech today. I don't want to be in a band with our band here and I wasn't heard from. I didn't want to make a of who I was still rather good. They were fine. Excuse me. That's. The way you support. The. Stickers. What do you think of his. Speech. He liked it. I agree with.

Absolutely. Everything. Everything. The portion issue he didn't have much to say about that. He's. Anti-abortion. And we have. That's. Enough for you. Did he know that he didn't mention. No we agree with. With all of his political. Ideology. I. Feel the same way. Yes this is my wife Carol. And. This is the only candidate that I see on the horizon that is. Either. Even close. To big in our country to where she has to be if she's going to survive. Some people are saying you may be more of a protest candidate do you think he has a viable chance to win. Yes I do. I really do. All we have to do is get the message out to people because. I'm convinced that the vast majority of Americans as they sit wherever they're sitting and listen. I identify with you. And do not identify with the other candidates or what's happening to our country.

What it is about his message of economic anti-immigrant. All right. That's the. Way it has to be. It really does. There's nothing magical about it. I think it's just. That precious precious phrase called common sense. And if we were only to an act that in our country. We'd be infinitely better off. Do you care that you didn't talk much about abortion. No I think abortion. He talked about it at this particular point I guess as much as it was called for. But it is very simply the taking of a human life and it is wrong. That's all there is to it. Thanks for your time. Are you one of the student organizers for pop culture. Can I ask a question. Sure.

Just get your name happening. The vice president the student body from the State College help you when your first read president of the student body going to be organizing his campaign. That's the idea throughout all the all the campuses in the state of New Hampshire and that's where we're going to be looking for votes. What does his message actually do. I think that's basically his frankness too. I think he's very frank I think communicates well with students just because it's perceived that he's a straight shooter. And I think a lot of students are very agreeable with some of the stands on trade issues and on illegal immigration and things of that nature I think he'll do very well with those issues on campus. You speak to students and students are concerned. I think so especially as far as deficit reduction because I mean that's what students should know in the next 10 years were graduating from college and getting out their trade issues and the deficit making sure that there will be an

economy for students out there. I think that's a very big issue. And talk about an issue that you care about. Well I think. As far as the abortion issue goes. I mean the individuals who make up their own mind I think it should be a litmus test for a candidate at all and I don't think it'll happen very much on the college campuses because you know. Yes. Sheila Dobson. That's correct. Are you supporting them. I think this is going to be a strong second amendment. Yes. In particular I think he's strong in everything. I really believe that he's the best man in the race is the

best American and he's the only candidate that doesn't back step from all the important issues because more than a pro-choice candidate that has a real chance to win. Yes I do. That if you look at Nightline I believe it. You know throughout the country in 1990 when I was with George Bush. In 1992 I was in Massachusetts in 1992. Not where particularly as he said that event.

Mr. Buchanan has called Adolf Hitler a great leader steeped in Europe's history. He questions whether the Holocaust ever happened. Mr. Buchanan is tough on all war criminals except if that criminal is a Nazi. Mr. Buchanan speaks words of hate against Jewish Americans against African-Americans against homosexuals and we asked it all decent Americans stand up against him. We intend to follow him across the country as we raise the voice of moral conscience to speak out against this specific group. I'm a spokesman for the coalition of Jewish concerns. Armstrong is our president and my name is Ron morrow and last name is T O R O S S I am. That's right. That's right. We don't have. The feeling. When you hear the charges how do you think it's Aroney. I think everybody is catering to their lousy egos. That's what I think.

And they talk about world conscious. I my own conscience they're not speaking for me or for all the people that were there to support that obviously. I definitely did. What is it about his message. What is it about his message. He talks. He's a brilliant man. And he speaks from my heart I believe everything that he says because I believe that here in my heart. So he speaks for me definitely. And you know when you speak from your heart you know what that is tell you everything he says. He offended by these people. Oh yes. My daughter is very offended. She's just trying to get information from folks. Like