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 BARRThe world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher – like Reagan – refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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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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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
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The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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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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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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State legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
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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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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
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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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Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
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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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Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.
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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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It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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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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