Bob Barr Quotes

#1. The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect them from competition.

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#2. Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails.

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#3. What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It's having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

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#4. Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control and reminded them and their candidates of that important fact.

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#5. The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

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#6. 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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#7. 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.

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#8. Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and have a good time.

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#9. Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

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#10. Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.

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#11. It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

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#12. Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. 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.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days.

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#16. Whether it's a sitting president when I was an impeachment manager, or a Republican president who has taken liberties with adherence to the law, to me the standard is the same.

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#17. It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.

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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.

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#21. There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

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#25. 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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#26. Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

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#27. 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.

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#28. The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

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#29. The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word 'No.'

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#30. People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.

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#31. The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

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#35. History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

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#36. 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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#37. Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes.

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#38. 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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#39. The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.

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#40. For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

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