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When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by government officials and help prevent recurrence; the 'Waco hearings,' conducted over a two-week period in 1995, stand as an example of such an undertaking.

~Bob Barr

Topics: Actions Branch Example Executive Executive Branch Focused Government Government Officials Help Manner Officials Over Oversight Period Preparation Prevent Professional Proper Reveal Serious Shortcomings Stand Undertaking

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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.

~Bob Barr

Topics: Actions American American Citizen Any Any Given Time Assume Being Citizen Considering Federal Federal Government Given Government His Home Ironic Least Level Movements Outside Own Privacy Reasonably Say Somebody Something Somewhere Surveillance Taking Time Today Virtually

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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

Topics: Against Amendment Arms Bear Constitution Continue Court Decisions Despite Enact Fundamental Government Guarantees Human Individual Just Keep Laws Right Second Second Amendment State Supreme Supreme Court Two Unequivocally

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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.

~Bob Barr

Topics: Civil Civil Liberties Clouds Constitution Day Every Every Day Find Front Front Page Government Government Officials Hanging Hard Liberties Lining Local Local Government Make Office Officials Often Our Oval Oval Office Over Page Report Seemingly Silver Stories Storm Up Way

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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.

~Bob Barr

Topics: Agenda Any Anything Close Degree Dire Enamored Fall Fuel Going Government Government Spending Liberal Loves Perceived Remains Sky Spending Threat Threatens Warnings Worthy

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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

Topics: Against Backlash Big Big Government Creep Encouraging Federal Government Growing Mission Power Resistance Sign

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The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.

~Bob Barr

Topics: Abroad Activity Agent American Assumes Average Average American Because Close Come Contents Criminal Device Does Electronic Give Government Her His Ipad Just Just Because Likely Meeting Returning Right Seize Threshold Trip Vacation Would

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

~Bob Barr

Topics: Aftermath Big Big Government Crisis Government History Immediate Real Shown

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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.

~Bob Barr

Topics: Ability Any Beings Communicate Control Done Earth Every Face Fellow Generation Given Globe Government Government Control Human Human Beings Internet Invention Magnificent Person Single Time Topic Virtually Without

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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.

~Bob Barr

Topics: Believe Decision Each Federal Federal Government Government Make Ought Out People Pro-Life State Stay Themselves I Believe I Believe That

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