Government Quotes
They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government... the only effective cure is to reduce the scope of government - get government out of the business.
I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.
I was born in the U.S. Why should anyone who has an unfavorable view of the American government renounce his or her citizenship? Why don't its supporters relinquish their citizenship first?
Big-government liberals don't like people with a sense of independence because independent people don't need big government.
Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.
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You can see it in the worship of [Ronald] Reagan, which portrays him as somebody who saved us from government. Actually he was an apostle of big government.
Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.
I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.
The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.
The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above the Supreme Court.
Its often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
Donald Trump will lead a unified Republican government. And we will work hand-in- hand on a positive agenda to tackle America's big challenges.
I want to bring accountability to the federal government. I want the federal government to respect the states.
If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.
Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.
The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are struggling more.
I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.
I don't believe anyone doubts the American people's values or the commitment of the American government or the government's agencies to advancing those values and defending those values.
Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime.
The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on the socialist analysis of the market economy.
Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.
It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.
I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything.
Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.
Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.
Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.
Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.
We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.
The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.
There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.
You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government.
Bill Clinton is the guy that said, "The era of Big Government is over." Whether or not he meant it or not, he said it.
Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.
Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.
I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.
Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.