I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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 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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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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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 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 have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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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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