---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 17:25:24 -0500 (EST) From: Darrin A Crowell To: Mark S Kuhn Subject: Buchanan on Aff. A BUCHANAN ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 
Buchanan on Affirmative Action


Text excerpted from Pat Buchanan's speech at the AARP Conference, Bedford, NH
January 26, 1996



...And I think we as leaders, have got to start
looking out for our own country, and our own people, first
for a change.  And that's what I intend to do as President of
the United States.  We've got to remember, we've got to get
away from this idea of hyphenated Americanism, get away from
this idea of racial entitlements, of affirmative action of
quotas, all of this nonsense we've got to start thinking, of
ourselves as Americans first.  No more hyphenated
Americanism.

We're all here we want equal justice under law, and special
privilege for none.  This is the only way we're going to come
together as a nation and as a people, I believe, is we gut to
move toward a high ground, a high ground where there is no
more entitlements because of where your grandfather came
from, and no more discrimination, against folks because their
great-grandfather's might have been brought here in chains.
No discrimination, no preferential treatment, and we move
forward as a nation as a people, where we can become one
again.  One nation indivisible, under god, for liberty and
justice for all, thank you very much.[clapping]