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 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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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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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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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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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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The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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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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State legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
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The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
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