You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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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 made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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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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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 am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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