If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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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And 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.
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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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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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When 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.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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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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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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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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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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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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