I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
BARRY GOLDWATERPolitics [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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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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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Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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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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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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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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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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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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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.
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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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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