I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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