Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwaterwas an American politician and businessman who was a five-term United States Senator from Arizonaand the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1964 election. Despite losing the election by a landslide, Goldwater is the politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the libertarian movement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 January 1909
CityPhoenix, AZ
CountryUnited States of America
Barry Goldwater quotes about
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.
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
One way we exercise political freedom is to vote for the candidate of our choice. Another way is to use our money to try to persuade other voters to make a similar choice - that is, to contribute to our candidate's campaign. If either of these freedoms is violated, the consequences are very grave not only for the individual voter and contributor, but for the society whose free political processes depend on a wide distribution of political power.
It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power - political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical.
You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Estrella Mountains, south of downtown. I've always thought of God in those terms.