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
"I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution.
[G]overnment can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of government power are left to their own devices. This is because of the corrupting influence of power, the natural tendency of men who possess some power to take unto themselves more power. The tendency leads eventually to the acquisition of all power - whether in the hands of one or many makes little difference to the freedom of those left on the outside.
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.
Nixon should get his ass out of the White House-Today! Barry M
It's wonderful that we have so many religious people in our party, ... They need to leave their theologies in their churches.
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
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.
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.
The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.