When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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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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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’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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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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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
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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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