We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
BARRY GOLDWATEREveryone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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 am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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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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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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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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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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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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