I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
BARRY GOLDWATERI do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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