We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
BARRY GOLDWATERI’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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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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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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