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.
BARRY GOLDWATERI have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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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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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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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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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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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’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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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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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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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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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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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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