I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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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 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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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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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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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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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