Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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