Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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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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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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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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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 don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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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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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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