They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.

Mark Hatfield, as quoted in The Condition of Republicanism (1968) by Nick Thimmesch, p. 65 | They told me if I voted for Goldwater we'd be at war in Vietnam in six months — and I did and we were. | Anonymous voter, as quoted in It All Comes Back to Me Now : Character Portraits from the "Golden Apple" (2001) by William O'Shaughnessy, p. 85 | Buckley did say this on the Firing Line episode "Vietnam: Pull Out? Stay In? Escalate?" According to the transcript here, he says "...if someone told me that if I voted for Goldwater, we would escalate the war, I did and we have."

They told me if I voted for Goldwater in 1964, that we'd have more war and higher prices. Well, I did, and we do.