I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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