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The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
Bob Barr
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Bob Barr
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 5
Former United States Representative
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Iowa City
Iowa
Robert Laurence Barr
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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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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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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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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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The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.
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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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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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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. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
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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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It's not a gun control problem it's a cultural control problem.
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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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