I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
BARRY GOLDWATERWell, 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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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 have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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 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 am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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 the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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