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.
BOB BARRTaking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance.
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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I’m pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That’s a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.
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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 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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Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
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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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The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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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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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.
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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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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 Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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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.
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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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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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