The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
BARRY GOLDWATERMy aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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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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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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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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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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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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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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Nixon 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.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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