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.
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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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 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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It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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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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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
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