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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.

Bob Barr

There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief.
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Marijuana Medicine Pain Whatsoever
I believe great damage is being done to our Constitution, and I see no remedy at all, no likelihood of that changing, if we rely on the two parties to field our candidates for national office.
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Candidate Constitution Likelihood Office Parties
Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
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Defense Firearms Playing Themselves
History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
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Aftermath Government Manufactured Real
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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Government Inflation People Thinking Treated
In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe.
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Communicate Done Generations Government Topic
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.
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Beautiful Country Gun
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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Erode Expansion Government
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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Office President Records Transparent
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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Cities Gun Investigate Nobody Towns
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
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Liberty Long Regulation Sector Silence
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
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Accepting Order Requirements
Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
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Medicine Technology Yield
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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Conservatives Government Party Reason Vote
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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Country Occupation Supported War
This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
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Control Government Invention Magnificient Succumbing
It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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Backbone High Oversight Time
Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.
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Attaching Country Decision Distracting Enabling Trying
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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Attacking Democrat Expansion Misguided Republica Wrong
The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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Charting Course Hurt Party Tea
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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Adequate Challenges Impossible Law
It matters not whether its proponents have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
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After Case Either Increase Matters Proponents
People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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People Principles Support
After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
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Ability Borders Foundation National Protect Sovereignty
At virtually any given time outside of one’s own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
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Assume Citizen Country Movement Something Somewhere
Going to war against Iran – whether one calls such a move ‘surgical’ or ‘total’ – would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
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Military Moving Serious Total Undertaking War
I’m pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That’s a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.
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Believe Federal Government Ought People

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