Barry Goldwater Quote --
"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 to pass laws, but to repeal them. … I will not attempt to discover whether
legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is
constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting
my constituents’ 'interests,' I shall reply that I was informed that their main
interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can."
The bad news is that Barry got his you-know-what
kicked in the 1964 election. On the other hand, America did elect a president that
said “government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.”
And a 2011 poll that most Americans—unlike their European
counterparts—do not believe it is government’s job to guarantee that “nobody is
in need.”
DWD