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Big Government Quotes

This book (Jarod Kintz's book) is trash. I mean, I assume it is, because that's where I found it while scrounging for lunch. However, I must admit that I haven't read it. I would have, but I am homeless, mainly due to my illiteracy (though Big Government, Keynesian monetary policy, and my struggle with alcoholism certainly played a large role).
- Dora J Arod

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!
- Lou Barletta

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.
- Glenn Beck

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.
- Glenn Beck

'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.
- Glenn Beck

The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.
- Bradley A Blakeman

Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.
- Arthur C Brooks

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.
- Sherrod Brown

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.
- Michael Burgess

My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.
- Ari Fleischer

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.
- Steve Forbes

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
- Jesse Helms

I'm for a big government. A big government contraction.
- Jarod Kintz

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
- Rush Limbaugh

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
- Rush Limbaugh

What is Big Government but the Executive's cocaine dream, an activity devoted solely to jockeying for position, in which he may find license for malversation, and may take the company treasury and direct it toward those people who will support his continued incumbency--it is within the law. Its street name is 'earmarks,' but it is theft.
- David Mamet

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.
- Mitch Mcconnell

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.
- John Moody

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.
- Leonard Peltier

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
- Mike Pence

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.
- Mike Pence

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
- Rick Perry

Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!
- Rick Perry

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
- Wendell Phillips

The Democrats' agenda isn't working for women. Their vision has produced big government and limited opportunity. Our vision is for limited government and opportunity for all. Women deserve better than what President Obama has delivered.
- Reince Priebus

The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have failed us. We can't afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.
- Reince Priebus

Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.
- Mike Rogers

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.
- Marco Rubio

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
- Marco Rubio

Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.
- Marco Rubio

Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.
- Marco Rubio

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
- Marco Rubio

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.
- Marco Rubio

Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.
- Rick Santorum

War is just one more big government program.
- Joseph Sobran

Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.
- Andy Stern

The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.
- Mark Steyn

Big Government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically.
- Mark Steyn

Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks--drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
- Mark Steyn

Under Big Government, the ruling class get power and perks,...but others among the ruled class just get unruly.
- Mark Steyn

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.
- Strom Thurmond

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.
- Scott Walker

I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers.
- Scott Walker

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.'
- Scott Walker

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.
- Scott Walker

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