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.
BOB BARRA critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don’t start falling off.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today’s intelligence challenges.
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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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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
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On taking office, Obama promised the ‘most transparent’ administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
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The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don’t let up. If you’re always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong.
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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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The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher – like Reagan – refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
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Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.
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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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The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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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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The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It’s a mainstream philosophy. It’s of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.
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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance.
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Let us not rush into a vast expansion of government power in a misguided attempt to protect freedom. In doing so, we will inevitably erode the very freedom we seek to protect.
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The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
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