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.
BOB BARRIt is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today’s intelligence challenges.
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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The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher – like Reagan – refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
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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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The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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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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This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
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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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After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
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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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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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Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
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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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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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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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