We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
BARRY GOLDWATERWe have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
BARRY GOLDWATERNixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
BARRY GOLDWATERI 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.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
BARRY GOLDWATERExtremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
BARRY GOLDWATERWe now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
BARRY GOLDWATERSex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
BARRY GOLDWATERSmall men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
BARRY GOLDWATERI understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
BARRY GOLDWATEREveryone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
BARRY GOLDWATERAny pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
BARRY GOLDWATERMy aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
BARRY GOLDWATERI’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER