black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Bob Barr

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.
BOB BARR

Attaching Country Decision Distracting Enabling Trying
The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
BOB BARR

Charting Course Hurt Party Tea
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today’s intelligence challenges.
BOB BARR

Adequate Challenges Impossible Law
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.
BOB BARR

Business Community Party Philosophy School
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.
BOB BARR

Cutting Moving Names
History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
BOB BARR

Aftermath Government Manufactured Real
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.
BOB BARR

Already Conservatives Government Keys Party
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.
BOB BARR

Day Every Government Local Office Oval Stories
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 BARR

Cities Gun Investigate Nobody Towns
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.
BOB BARR

Liberty Long Regulation Sector Silence
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.
BOB BARR

Military Moving Serious Total Undertaking War
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.
BOB BARR

Country Occupation Supported War
After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
BOB BARR

Ability Borders Foundation National Protect Sovereignty
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
BOB BARR

Accepting Order Requirements
Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
BOB BARR

Medicine Technology Yield
Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
BOB BARR

Anywhere Country Crime Reputation Violent

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bob Barr Quotes