Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
BARRY GOLDWATERI certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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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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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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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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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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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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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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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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