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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.

Barry Goldwater

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Barry Goldwater
Age: 89 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: May 29
Aircraft Pilot
Businessperson
Former United States Senator
Military Officer
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Arizona
Barry Morris Goldwater
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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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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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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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There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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 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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To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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.
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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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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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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time, and never having even talked about it in all those years, I just thought, why the hell shouldn't they serve? They're American citizens. As long as they're not doing things that are harmful to anyone else... So I came out for it.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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