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

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
Photographer
Politician
Phoenix
Arizona
Barry Morris Goldwater
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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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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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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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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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 say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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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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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: One can disagree without being disagreeable.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a manner which could ultimately destroy the freedom of all American citizens, including the freedoms of the very persons whose feelings and whose liberties are the major subject of this legislation.
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To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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