I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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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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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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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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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