It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today’s intelligence challenges.
BOB BARRAfter all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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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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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.
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The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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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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People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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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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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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Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties – from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
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The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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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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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 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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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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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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The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
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