You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
BARRY GOLDWATERYou don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
BARRY GOLDWATERWhen white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
BARRY GOLDWATERAfter 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.
BARRY GOLDWATERI think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
BARRY GOLDWATERWhen I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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 GOLDWATERSmall men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
BARRY GOLDWATERI 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.
BARRY GOLDWATERWe are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
BARRY GOLDWATERI will offer a choice, not an echo.
BARRY GOLDWATERI’m the most underdog underdog there is.
BARRY GOLDWATERPolitics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
BARRY GOLDWATERWe shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
BARRY GOLDWATERBy 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.
BARRY GOLDWATERThere’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
BARRY GOLDWATERI understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
BARRY GOLDWATER