Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
BARRY GOLDWATERUnlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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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’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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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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 fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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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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