Barry Goldwater

"I used to receive a hundred calls a year from people who wanted me to get into the Green Room at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, because that's where the Air Force stored all the material gathered on…"

"Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar."

"On peanut butter as shaving cream "…if you don't mind smelling like a peanut for two or three days it's a darn good shaving cream…"

"I won't say 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."

"Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are …"

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!"

"I said one day that Dole had a temper, and he got madder than hell. He has one. He has a mean one."

"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 t…"