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.
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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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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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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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 have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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I 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.
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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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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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