I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
BARRY GOLDWATERI have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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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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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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