Barry Goldwater Quotes - Page 5

The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there's Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn't know anything about. He has no discipline.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

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

The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.

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

Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.

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

In your heart you know he's right.

I'm the most underdog underdog there is.

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.

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

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

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

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

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

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

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.

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

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.

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