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.
BOB BARRThe seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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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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The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
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The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
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Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people – real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.
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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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Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.
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A 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.
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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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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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I think what the American people are going to see down the road is significant inflationary pressure as a result of all this government printed, you know, this new money that the government is putting in.
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The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a ‘fairness’ issue, is the typical ‘wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing’ ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues.
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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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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
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