Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
BARRY GOLDWATERSome programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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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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 could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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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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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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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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