The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher – like Reagan – refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
BOB BARRHistory has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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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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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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The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
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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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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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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
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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 backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
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State legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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