I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
BARRY GOLDWATERI’m the most underdog underdog there is.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe 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.
BARRY GOLDWATERWithout the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
BARRY GOLDWATERI 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.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
BARRY GOLDWATERI 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?
BARRY GOLDWATERAnd 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.
BARRY GOLDWATERYou’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
BARRY GOLDWATERTo disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
BARRY GOLDWATERThere’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
BARRY GOLDWATERPolitics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
BARRY GOLDWATERIn your heart you know he’s right.
BARRY GOLDWATERI have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
BARRY GOLDWATERI 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.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
BARRY GOLDWATER