It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
Barry GoldwaterPolitics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Barry GoldwaterToday neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a 'general assumption' but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
Barry GoldwaterIt is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
Barry Goldwater