Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
BARRY GOLDWATERI won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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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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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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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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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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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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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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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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