Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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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I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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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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History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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