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.
BOB BARRGoing 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.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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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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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
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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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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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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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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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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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The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
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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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In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe.
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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.
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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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This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
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