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 the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

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

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.'

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.