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.
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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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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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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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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.
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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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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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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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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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