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 BARRI 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.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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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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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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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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Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people – real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.
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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 high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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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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I think what the American people are going to see down the road is significant inflationary pressure as a result of all this government printed, you know, this new money that the government is putting in.
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The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance.
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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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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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Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.
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State legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
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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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