Quotes by Bob Barr

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Courts have long recognized the federal governments robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nations ability to protect its borders.

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.

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.

The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of national security.