You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
BARRY GOLDWATERIf you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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In your heart you know he’s right.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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 made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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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 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.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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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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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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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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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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The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
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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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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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