To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
BARRY GOLDWATERIf everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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 am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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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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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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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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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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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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