The Republican Party has become the party of the government status quo, and conservatives see no reason to reward it with their votes.
BOB BARRThere 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.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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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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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
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The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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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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After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
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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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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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The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a ‘fairness’ issue, is the typical ‘wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing’ ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues.
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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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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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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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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance.
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It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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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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