Buchanan on Foreign Policy

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

I think that was the greatest generation, this nation's ever
produced, with the possible exception of the founding
fathers.  And the folks in this room,[applause] who are
members, who are members of that generation most of you,
members of that generation.  And let me say in certain areas,
I've disagreed with my party I believe we have got, to reform
and take care and make sure the Medicare system, is solvent.
But before we went so hard, in that direction, I believe we
should'uh ended foreign aid, we should of cancelled that
fifty billion dollar bail-out of Mexico, and we should put
and end to these congressional pensions.[applause]
...We Americans, have got to start looking out for our own
country, and our own people, first for a change.[applause]
I tell ya, to me, to me that means ending foreign aid, and
thinking about the forgotten Americans right here in the
United States.
...This is our country, what are we doing sending an army over
to Bosnia, an army over to defend the borders of Kuwait, when
we can't even defend the borders of the United States of
America.