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Barry Goldwater1909-1998, American
Statesman, Senator, Republican Presidential Candidate:
* A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to
take it all away.
* I have long said that there are more leaks in Washington than in
Anheuser-Busch's biggest men's room.
* I once paraphrased Mark Twain on the Senate floor - there is no distinctly
native American criminal class except Congress.
* If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town
because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
* It was always my feeling, and still is, that a man's main message should
be headlined - not the fact that he may have fallen off a horse at the
county fair. Any damn fool can do that.
* It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president ... except
me.
* 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.
* No lie is intelligent, but his (Richard Nixon's) were colossal stupidity
because they involved the presidency of the United States.
* The business and sport of Washington is talking, night and day. The
nation's capital is the Hoover Dam of leaks.
* The conscience of the House once became so pained that members actually
passed a resolution saying, "Your Congress is not a crook."
* The Defense Department spends as much time on its annual budget as it does
planning to defend the country.
* The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of
government.
* The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take
place.
* Those early instructors rarely taught students how to get out of a spin.
One of them once said jokingly to me, "If you ever get into one let go of
everything and start the Lord's Prayer."
* Westerners often admire a man more for standing tall than being right.
That might not appear to be the most politic thing to say, but it's the
truth.
* When I woke up this morning, I had one nerve left, and damned if you ain't
got on it!
* You don't need to be 'straight' to fight for your country. You just need
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