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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. — Barry Goldwater

The best thing Clinton could do - I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure - is to shut up. He has no discipline. — Barry Goldwater

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism. — Barry Goldwater

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place. — Barry Goldwater

I will offer a choice, not an echo. — Barry Goldwater

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. — Barry Goldwater

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal. — John Dean

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war. — Barry Goldwater

Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar. — Barry Goldwater

Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party. — Barry Goldwater

Barry Goldwater once said, 'I'd rather be right than president.' I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater. — Howard Dean

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass. — Barry Goldwater

Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them. — Barry M. Goldwater

Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners. — Barry Goldwater

I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door. — Bob Dylan

If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream. — Barry Goldwater

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering. — Barry Goldwater

I'm the most underdog underdog there is. — Barry Goldwater

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. — Barry Goldwater

We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles. — Barry Goldwater

It was hard to listen to Goldwater and realize that a man could be half Jewish and yet sometimes appear twice as dense as the normal Gentile. — I. F. Stone

They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened. — William F. Buckley Jr.

Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you. — Rick Perlstein

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead. — Barry Goldwater

I'd rather see a woman elected ... They understand they can't spend more money than the old man brings home. — Barry Goldwater

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun! — Barry Goldwater

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order. — Barry Goldwater

My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody. — Bob Dylan

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. — Barry Goldwater

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige — Barry Goldwater

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight. — Barry Goldwater

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process. — Barry Goldwater

Barry Goldwater has definitely decided to be a candidate in '64. He will campaign in all thirteen states. — George Carlin

My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. — Barry Goldwater

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. — Pete Seeger

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. — Barry Goldwater

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description. — Barry Goldwater

Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes. — Rick Perlstein

Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation. — Barry Goldwater

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government. — Barry Goldwater

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions. — Barry Goldwater

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has. — Barry Goldwater

I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style. — Roger Stone

I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly. — Barry Goldwater

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow. — Barry Goldwater

[He]talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. — Barry M. Goldwater

Senator Goldwater would have been a great success in the movies - working for 18th century Fox. — Hubert H. Humphrey

To disagree one doesnt have to be disagreeable — Barry M. Goldwater

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction. — Barry Goldwater

It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job. — Barry Goldwater

In your heart you know he's right. — Barry Goldwater

Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends. — Rick Perlstein

We are on the Colorado ... that means something more to me than thoughts of electrical power or a harnessed river. — Barry Goldwater

I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone. — Barry Goldwater

Government should stay the hell out of people's business. — Barry Goldwater

Reagan is described as delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique. — H.W. Brands

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom. — Barry Goldwater

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine. — Barry Goldwater

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. — Barry Goldwater

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians. — Barry Goldwater

We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true. — Barry Goldwater

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away — Barry M. Goldwater

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling. — Barry Goldwater

I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat. — Barry Goldwater

Perserverance ... that's been the story of my family. — Barry Goldwater

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.' — Barry Goldwater

You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight. — Barry Goldwater

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right. — Barry Goldwater

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom. — Barry Goldwater

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964. — John Bolton

Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war. — Barry Goldwater

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president ... except me. — Barry Goldwater

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk. — Barry Goldwater