by Patrick J. Buchanan – March 9, 1999
USA Today

To the women and African-Americans who hold most of the jobs in textiles and apparel, news that Levi Strauss is laying off 5,900 U.S. workers is a premonition of what awaits them. Their death sentence has been rendered, and there is to be no appeal.

This industry that employed 2 million Americans in 1981 has lost 700,000 jobs since. Cause of death: imports. Our trade deficit in textiles and apparel alone hit $47 billion in 1998. Our women and minorities cannot live on the 50-centc-an-hour wages paid to their competition in Mexico and Asia. So, all the jobs will go.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – March 2, 1999
New Hampshire

Friends, it is wonderful to come home to this state that holds so many cherished memories for Shelley and me. I have come here to make to the good people of New Hampshire a solemn promise:

God willing, from today to the nation’s first primary, I will raise my voice on behalf of those Americans who are not being heard, and to offer my hand to those who were not allowed to march in the great parade of American prosperity.