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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.

Barry Goldwater

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Barry Goldwater
Age: 89 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: May 29
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Former United States Senator
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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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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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 have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time we were proud of our strength, our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.
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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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