If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
BARRY GOLDWATERI won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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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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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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I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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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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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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