Barry Goldwater Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• 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.

  Barry Goldwater

  Mean, Government, Law

  Barry Morris Goldwater, C. C. Goldwater (2007). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.15, Princeton University Press

• 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.

  Barry Goldwater

  Father, Equality, Differences

  Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco

• Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

  Barry Goldwater

  Heart, Campaigns, Politics

• You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

  Barry Goldwater

  Country, Fighting, Needs

  1993 On homosexuals in the military. In Life, Dec.

• If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

  Barry Goldwater

  Two, Shaving Cream, Mind

• Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

  Barry Goldwater

  Art, Freedom, Order

  Barry Goldwater (1994). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

• It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.

  Barry Goldwater

  Country, Growing Up, Political

• If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

  Barry Goldwater

  Drinking, Government, Political

• 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.

  Barry Goldwater

  Political, Politics, Today

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