Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
BARRY GOLDWATERGovernment should stay the hell out of people’s business.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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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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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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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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