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.
BOB BARRWidespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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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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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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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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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.
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On taking office, Obama promised the ‘most transparent’ administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
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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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People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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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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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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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 Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction on key issues, such as immigration.
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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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The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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