On taking office, Obama promised the ‘most transparent’ administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
BOB BARRI’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.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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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.
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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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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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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 backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
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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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