This Week In Quotes: (7/11 – 7/17)

by John Hawkins | July 18, 2014 6:29 am

If a country is a land of defined and defended borders, within which resides a people of a common ancestry, history, language, faith, culture and traditions, in what sense are we Americans one nation and one people today? — Pat Buchanan[1]

The world is boiling with racial, tribal, cultural and moral conflict. People carry in their hearts the seeds of these conflicts. The notion that they will come here and be converted into Ozzie-and-Harriet Americans may be a bit utopian. America is becoming a microcosm of a world on fire. — Pat Buchanan[2]

Americans are already deep in a culture war over morality — marijuana, abortion, same-sex marriage. We are already racially polarized over affirmative action and income inequality. And when we have ceased to be an English-speaking, Christian country and become instead an Asian-Hispanic-African-American-white nation, with large Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, agnostic and atheist minorities, and no defined borders, or common faith and culture, what holds us together? And when did we vote for this future? — Pat Buchanan[2]

We’ve just got to get rid of this refugee policy. What are we gonna do take the entire world? All countries suck compared to America. Is that the standard? — Ann Coulter[3]

Living and working in America (or any country for that matter) is a privilege for non-natives, not a right. Yes, we should welcome people who want to come to this country and contribute but on our terms, not because they demand it or claim a right to be here. — DrewM.[4]

The media talks of a moral crisis on the border. It is certainly that, but not entirely in the way we are told. What sort of callous parents simply send their children as pawns northward without escort, in selfish hopes of soon winning for themselves either remittances or eventual passage to the U.S? What sort of government allows its vulnerable youth to pack up and leave, without taking any responsibility for such mass flight?

Here in the U.S., how can our government simply choose not to enforce existing laws? In reaction, could U.S. citizens emulate Washington’s ethics and decide not to pay their taxes, or to disregard traffic laws, or to build homes without permits? Who in the pen-and-phone era of Obama gets to decide which law to follow and which to ignore?

Who are the bigots – the rude and unruly protestors who scream and swarm drop-off points and angrily block immigration authority buses to prevent the release of children into their communities, or the shrill counter-protestors who chant back “Viva La Raza” (“Long Live the Race”)? For that matter, how does the racialist term “La Raza” survive as an acceptable title of a national lobby group in this politically correct age of anger at the Washington Redskins football brand?

How can American immigration authorities simply send immigrant kids all over the United States and drop them into communities without firm guarantees of waiting sponsors or family? If private charities did that, would the operators be jailed? Would American parents be arrested for putting their unescorted kids on buses headed out of state? — Victor Davis Hanson[5]

There’s a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that’s directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people talking about taking their country back. … There’s a certain racial component to this for some people. I don’t think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there’s a racial animus. — Eric Holder[6]

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional (America is). — John Kerry[7]

There are more people coming across the border than we sent to invade France in World War II. — Steve Stockman[8]

Endnotes:
  1. Pat Buchanan: http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2014/07/15/balkanization-beckons-n1862123/page/2
  2. Pat Buchanan: http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2014/07/18/the-brazil-of-north-america-n1863349/page/2
  3. Ann Coulter: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/07/14/Ann-Coulter-We-Cant-Take-Everyone-All-Countries-Suck-Compared-To-America
  4. DrewM.: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/350492.php
  5. Victor Davis Hanson: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/07/10/the_moral_crisis_on_our_southern_border_123265.html#ixzz37QKv4Zik
  6. Eric Holder: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/212082-holder-sees-racial-animus-in-opposition#ixzz37Pak2nO5
  7. John Kerry: http://weaselzippers.us/193242-kerry-i-get-a-little-uptight-when-i-hear-politicians-say-how-exceptional-america-is/
  8. Steve Stockman: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/07/gop-lawmaker-illegal-invasion-of-america-larger-than-d-day/

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