Barry Goldwater Quotes About Politics
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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.
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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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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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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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Barry Goldwater
- Born: January 2, 1909
- Died: May 29, 1998
- Occupation: Former United States Senator
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