It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
BOB BARRUnfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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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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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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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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State legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
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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 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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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
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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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People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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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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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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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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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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The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
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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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