Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!

I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

On Hillary Clinton, who was an ardent Goldwater supporter in 1964: 'If he'd let his wife run business, I think he'd be better off. ... I just like the way she acts. I've never met her, but I sent her a bag of chili, and she invited me to come to the White House some night and said she'd cook chili for me. Someday, maybe.'