On taking office, Obama promised the ‘most transparent’ administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
BOB BARRThe Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
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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 seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
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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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I 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.
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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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Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
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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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Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.
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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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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 world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher – like Reagan – refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
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