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.
BOB BARRAccepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.
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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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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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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.
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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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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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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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Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
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The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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The main international problem facing America is our lack of – our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.
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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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People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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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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After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
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The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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