We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
BARRY GOLDWATERHubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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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.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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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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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 understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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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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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