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. Bob Barr More Quotes by Bob Barr More Quotes From Bob Barr It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem. Bob Barr gun-control gun problem 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. Bob Barr ironic government home 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. Bob Barr political party law 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. Bob Barr loss america world 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. Bob Barr liberty silence long 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. Bob Barr government long country 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. Bob Barr party philosophy school The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody. Bob Barr party hurt tea The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power. Bob Barr resistance growing government History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured. Bob Barr aftermath government real 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. Bob Barr occupation iraq war 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. Bob Barr generations government done 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 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. Bob Barr towns gun cities 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. Bob Barr government people thinking 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 government believe 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. Bob Barr government office clouds 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. Bob Barr government sky fall The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out. Bob Barr terrorist afghanistan goal 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. Bob Barr these-days fear people
