I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
BARRY GOLDWATERI 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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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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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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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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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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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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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 certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
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