The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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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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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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’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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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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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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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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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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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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History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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