Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
BARRY GOLDWATERMy aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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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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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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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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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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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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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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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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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 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.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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