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.
BARRY GOLDWATERA 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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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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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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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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.
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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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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