Pat Buchanan in Quotations from Speaker Newt Gingrich


On Principles & Values: OpEd: Reagan says with humor what Buchanan says with anger

Reagan says with humor that [Pat] Buchanan says with anger. I think Buchanan is almost by definition a polarizer. Reagan accepts sadly the polarization you force on him, but he does not accept it. And "evil empire" he knew would be a polarizing phrase. And Reagan was quite clever in the Napoleonic sense of a strategic offense and a tactical defense. He would lunge out here somewhere and then be unbelievably pleasant while people screamed at him. Buchanan's technique is to wade into the middle of a barroom brawl.
--Unpublished interview with Newt Gingrich in U.S. News & World Report at Republican Convention in Houston. August 19, 1992
Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p. 87 Jan 1, 1995

The above quotations are from Quotations from Speaker Newt
The Little Red, White and Blue Book of the Republican Revolution
by Newt Gingrich and Amy D. Bernstein.
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The Little Red, White and Blue Book of the Republican Revolution
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