A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
BARRY GOLDWATERI understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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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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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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I 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.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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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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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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