I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws,…

Quote by Barry Goldwater

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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And...

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And...

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

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

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

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

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

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy...

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy...

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied...

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied...

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we...

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we...

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam...

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam...

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to...

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to...

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

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

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would...

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would...

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing...

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing...

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the...

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the...

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower...

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower...

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

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

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower...

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower...

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never...

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never...

Mayors are judged by results.

Mayors are judged by results.