We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
BARRY GOLDWATERThe best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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 could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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