American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
BARRY GOLDWATERPerserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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After 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.
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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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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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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 will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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