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.
BARRY GOLDWATERWomen are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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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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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
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The 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.
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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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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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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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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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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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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’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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