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 GOLDWATERWe have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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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