Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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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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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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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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In your heart you know he’s right.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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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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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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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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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 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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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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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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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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