black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

Bob Barr

I believe great damage is being done to our Constitution, and I see no remedy at all, no likelihood of that changing, if we rely on the two parties to field our candidates for national office.
BOB BARR

Candidate Constitution Likelihood Office Parties
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.
BOB BARR

Anywhere Country Crime Reputation Violent
The Republican Party has become the party of the government status quo, and conservatives see no reason to reward it with their votes.
BOB BARR

Conservatives Government Party Reason Vote
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.
BOB BARR

Attaching Country Decision Distracting Enabling Trying
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.
BOB BARR

Cities Gun Investigate Nobody Towns
The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
BOB BARR

Government Growing Resistance
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.
BOB BARR

Beautiful Country Gun
Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
BOB BARR

Medicine Technology Yield
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
BOB BARR

Accepting Order Requirements
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.
BOB BARR

Country Occupation Supported War
The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
BOB BARR

Clouds Government Office Omnipresent Strom
Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.
BOB BARR

Country Government Long
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 BARR

Cutting Moving Names
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.
BOB BARR

Attacking Democrat Expansion Misguided Republica Wrong
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today’s intelligence challenges.
BOB BARR

Adequate Challenges Impossible Law
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.
BOB BARR

Liberty Long Regulation Sector Silence

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bob Barr Quotes