Bob Barr Quotes

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• It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

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  Gun, Gun Control, Problem

  "Are guns or society to blame? Lawmakers search for answers", www.cnn.com. April 23, 1999.

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• 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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  Beautiful, Country, Gun

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• Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. 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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  Home, Government, Ironic

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• 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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  Party, Law, Political

  "Election 2008: Presidential Candidate Bob Barr". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2008.

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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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  Order, Requirements, Accepting

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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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  Real, Government, Aftermath

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• 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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  Gun, Cities, Towns

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• Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.

  Bob Barr

  Government, Law, Two

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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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  Technology, Yield, Medicine

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• 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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  Country, Government, Long

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• I believe in the Constitution. I believe in separation of powers. I believe in the rule of law. I believe in limited government. And these are principles and policies that apparently neither the national Republican nor the national Democrat Party believes in. 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

  Party, Believe, Government

  "Bob Barr Leaps in as a Libertarian". Interview with Bill Steigerwald, themoderatevoice.com.

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• 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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  Taken, Law, President

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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.

  Bob Barr

  Pain, Marijuana, Medicine

  "Barr Booed for Anti-Pot Remarks in Home District Event". Drug War Chronicle, www.stopthedrugwar.org. May 17, 2002.

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• 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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  Philosophy, Party, School

  "Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr Discusses Economic Crisis". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 20, 2008.

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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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  Long, Silence, Liberty

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• In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.

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  Government, Generations, Done

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

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  Hurt, Party, Tea

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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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  Government, Growing, Resistance

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• 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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  Clouds, Government, Office

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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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  Law, Challenges, Adequate

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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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  People, Support, Principles

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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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  World

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• 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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  Memories, Real, Mind

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• 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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  Office, President, Records

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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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  War, Iraq, Occupation

  "Election 2008: Presidential Candidate Bob Barr". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2008.

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