Barry Goldwater Quotes
You never tear your President down.
Barry Goldwater, 1909-1998, U.S. Senator (Republican, AZ), Republican Nominee for President, Interview, CNN Larry King Live, 1995
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He was a Republican who served a Democratic President to the distress of some of the extreme right wingers of the Republican Party.
To afford the President the greatest deference and respect should be a gratification to any citizen.
The Secretary was a very formal and proper man.
Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician, statesman, businessman, United States Air Force officer, and author who was a five-term Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States in 1964. Goldwater is the politician most often credited with having sparked the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. Despite his loss of the 1964 presidential election in a landslide, many political pundits and historians believe he laid the foundation for the conservative revolution to follow, as the grassroots organization and conservative takeover of the Republican party began a long-term realignment in American politics helped to bring about the "Reagan Revolution" of the 1980s. He also had a substantial impact on the libertarian movement.
