I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
BARRY GOLDWATERWell, 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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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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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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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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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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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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