Bob Barr Quotes

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

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

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

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

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.

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.

The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

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

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.