To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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’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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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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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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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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