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.
BARRY GOLDWATERTrade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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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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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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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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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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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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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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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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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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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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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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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