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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

Barry Goldwater

It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Growing Political Up
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Flying Men Pilot
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 GOLDWATER

Abortion Decision Religious
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Environment People Stronger
To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Conservative Patriotic War
I will offer a choice, not an echo.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Choices Echoes Inspiring
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Differences Equality Father
None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Government Love
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?
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Issues Place Religious
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Causes Liberty Neglect
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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House Style White
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Government Little Mean
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Defense Liberty Vices
It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Jobs People Running
A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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Fighting Men Order
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Business Men Stupid

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