I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
BARRY GOLDWATERI’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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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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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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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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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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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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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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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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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