It matters not whether its proponents have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
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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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
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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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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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The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
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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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Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
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The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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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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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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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.
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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance.
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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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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 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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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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