I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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 have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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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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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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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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