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 GOLDWATERAfter 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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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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I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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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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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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