goldwater Quotes

“I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.”

“American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.”

“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 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 every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.”

“The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.”

“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.”

“Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.”