Al Barr Quotes

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

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

I don't need the definition of society, I'll just do my little thing in my corner and I'll be satisfied. I think that's important nowadays.

Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.

No one is ever really dead unless we find the body.

I get paid to not laugh.

We have a puppy named Lucy... two cats... goldfish... and Louis, our lop earred rabbit.

Sometimes I think it's better to be a diva.

Always wanted to be an actress or work with animals and now I get to do both.

And Ive had vocal training on and off for years.

I have to give props to my stunt double, who is the real deal and gets to do all the fun stuff and make me look good.

My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

The little boy in me always wanted to be a treasure hunter.

Everyone holds a secret and that's just true about everyone. So at the end of the day it's amazing what people will do when they're backed up in a corner.

I think people's soul - I think you can kind of see it - there's what they say and there's what they do.

It's fun to get the script every Monday morning and go, "Cool!" I'm a professional actor, but I'm also a professional story lover. I get off on that thrill.

I never did anything with the early recordings I made, I felt they weren't worthy.

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.

There isn't much of an agenda lyrically. And I definitely didn't want to write about things I don't know anything about.

I don't have much contact at all with other black metal bands.

I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.

We are one another’s angels.

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.

You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.

My husband says, 'Roseanne, don't you think we ought to talk about our sexual problems?' Like I'm gonna turn off Wheel of Fortune for that.

There isn't any New Man. The New Man is the old man, only he whines more.

There is no scarier chasm of darkness than the human mind.

I used to think that communing with nature was a healing, positive thing. Now, I think I'd like to commune with other things - like room service and temperature control.

My husband is almost as heavy as I am. We were married in adjoining churches.

Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian.

Diets are a temporary solution to a permanent problem.

You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.

Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life.

Suddenly, people had three phone numbers but never answered their phones.

My real life is funnier than anything on TV.

The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment Roseanne dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

You know what, when I was thin, I thought there was a fat girl trying to get out of me.