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.
BARRY GOLDWATERWe have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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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.
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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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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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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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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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