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LP in the News
The Libertarian Party in 2007
"If a third-party candidate, like Libertarian Fred Peterson, received 15
percent or even 10 percent of the vote, both of the major parties,
regardless of who won, would be forced to reconsider their slow march
toward a police state. The point is, in my mind, that the people are
unhappy with the direction of this city as enacted or proposed by both
major candidates. At least consider the third option."
- Indianapolis Star letter to the editor, Oct. 30, 2007
"I don't want to give a free pass to anyone. The citizens lose when there is not an option. By me running, I think it keeps them a little more honest and allows discussions to occur."
- Libertarian City Controller candidate, Mike Rauterkus, speaking of his candidacy in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Oct. 23, 2007
“All too often, government agencies are judged by what they promise to do, not on what they do. So I want to find out what they do. I want what they do to be done publicly.”
- Libertarian John Paff, regarding his lawsuit to keep local council meetings open, Burlington County Times, Oct. 22, 2007
"The country has devolved so much into a two-party system that many folks believe that if you abandon one party, you must necessarily take up common cause with the other one. Yet if you have a choice between two restaurants - one that serves food laced with rat poison and one that serves it laced with arsenic, you might want to eat somewhere else, even if it's a long drive until the next rest stop and even if the new restaurant hasn't gotten great reviews."
- columnist Steven Greenhut explaining his decision to join the LP in the Orange County Register, May 6, 2007
"If the Libertarian Party can target angry and disenchanted limited-government Republicans and make a compelling case for them switching over to the Libertarian Party with [former Congressman Bob] Barr … they just might be onto something."
- political consultant Chuck Muth, FoxNews.com, April 17, 2007
"If I could get this down to zero, I'd be happy."
- Montana LP Chairman Mike Fellows about a proposed state income tax cut, Billings Gazette, April 11, 2007
"...the Libertarian Party, among all of the parties out there, is the only one that is true to my core philosophy of working to minimize government power and maximize individual liberty. None of the other parties, and especially the Republican Party any longer, is at all committed to that philosophy. And secondly, my great concern, manifested especially since 9/11, is the assaults on our fundamental civil liberties by this administration. [That's] personified, for example, in the disregard for the rule of law as exhibited by the warrantless NSA [National Security Agency] electronic surveillance in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. More recently, [there were] documented abuses at the FBI in carrying out certain of the expanded powers granted in the Patriot Act, namely, national security letters. And in January of this year, the testimony by the attorney general that this administration does not believe that the fundamental right to a writ of habeas corpus is an important, fundamental, constitutional guarantee. So what we have is a party, the Republican Party, to which I was very proud to belong for many, many years, no longer being committed to a core conservative philosophy. The Libertarian Party is so committed, and I felt that at the time that it was necessary to make a change because of the seriousness of the assaults on our civil liberties."
- former Congressman Bob Barr, Salon News, April 4, 2007
"For instance, most election bills are written in ways that help protect the power of the incumbency, ballot access laws being the most obvious example. They write laws that make it harder for them to have any third-party opposition. And [this recent call for public campaign financing] is yet another example; this is basically another ballot-access barrier."
- former LP Political Director Stephen Gordon, The New Standard, April 2, 2007
"The problem is that we are a minority party in a winner-take-all voting system," said Mr. Redpath, urging party activists to support "electoral reform" aimed at creating a system of proportional representation.
- LNC Chairman William Redpath, The Washington Times, March 19, 2007
"We have to put our best faces forward in winnable races," said Shane Cory, who became executive director of the Libertarian Party last year. He emphasized the need to "build from the bottom up" by winning office at the state and local level, and agreed with Mr. Viguerie's stress on issue-oriented activism. "We need to diversify and be able to address a broad range of issues."
- LP Executive Director Shane Cory, The Washington Times, March 19, 2007
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