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.
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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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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 will offer a choice, not an echo.
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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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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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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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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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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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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Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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