It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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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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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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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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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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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The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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