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 BARRThe backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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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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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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The main international problem facing America is our lack of – our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.
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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.
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There 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.
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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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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.
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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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It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials.
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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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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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This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
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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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