Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance.
BOB BARRCourts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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The Republican Party has become the party of the government status quo, and conservatives see no reason to reward it with their votes.
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After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.
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Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
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I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction on key issues, such as immigration.
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Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
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I’m pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That’s a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.
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State legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
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Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
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Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties – from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
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People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials.
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MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat – worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.
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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
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For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting ‘experts’ that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
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