Quotes About Big Government

#1. 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

#2. There are three principal conservative descriptions of conservatism. 1. Conservatism is against big government. 2. Conservatism is for traditional values. 3. Conservatism is just what the Bible tells us. We

George Lakoff

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

Glenn Beck

#4. Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

George Monbiot

#5. Big-government liberals don't like people with a sense of independence because independent people don't need big government.

Neal Boortz

#6. Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.

James Cook

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

Scott Walker

#8. 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

#9. Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

Paul Ryan

#10. In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of course, a big government bureaucracy isn't keeping up.

Carly Fiorina

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

Marco Rubio

#12. Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

Marco Rubio

#13. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

Mark Steyn

#14. Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.

A.E. Samaan

#15. During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody the need to pay more taxes in order to finance this big government. We are against big government. We want a smaller and more efficient government.

Antonis Samaras

#16. Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.

Mark Tooley

#17. 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

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

Jesse Helms

#19. Big government is the most corrupt industry in America.

Malcolm Wallop

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

Rick Santorum

#23. Big government makes small citizens.

Mark Steyn

#24. 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

#25. '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

#26. Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.

Marco Rubio

#27. Big government = oligarchy.
Simple equation.
Big government = loss of representation.

A.E. Samaan

#28. Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.

Oliver DeMille

#29. If suffering through four years of hellishly misguided big government is the price we pay for true reform, it may in the end be worth it.

Peter D. Schiff

#30. Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

George Will

#31. 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

#32. Here in Tennessee, instead of the big spending, big government, job killing agenda of the Obama Administration, Tennesseans have tightened their belts and are struggling to find jobs that will enable them to support their families.

Marsha Blackburn

#33. The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is - it's got to be more government.

Harry Browne

#34. 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

#35. If it's not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis, we can expect a continuous and dangerous march toward corporatism and even fascism with even more loss of our liberties,

Ron Paul

#36. Expanding a failing, big-government program that reduces flexibility for the states and traps generations of Americans in dependency is not consistent with the kind of conservative solutions that Reagan sought during his terms as governor of California and president of the United States.

Edwin Meese

#37. The era of resisting big government is never over.

Paul Gigot

#38. We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.

Wayne Rogers

#39. I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

Rand Paul

#40. 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

#41. The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people back to work. That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger.

Dan Quayle

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent the control from being harmful. With small, limited government, it doesn't much matter who controls it, because it can't do you much harm.

Harry Browne

#45. Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.

Joel Miller

#46. Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

Marco Rubio

#47. The era of big government is over.

William J. Clinton

#48. 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

#49. I ran for governor because I was worried about my kids' future. Then, I took on the big government union bosses, and we won. They tried to recall me, and we won. They target us again, and we won. We balanced the budget, cut taxes, and turned our state around with big, bold reforms.

Scott Walker

#50. Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.

George Will

#51. Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.

Mike Rogers

#52. In 1996, Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in the State of the Union address.

Nina Easton

#53. A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

Robert B. Reich

#54. Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.

Dan Rather

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

Marco Rubio

#56. Whether it's called 'compassionate conservatism' or 'big government Republicanism,' after years of record increases in federal spending, more government is now the accepted Republican philosophy in Washington.

Mike Pence

#57. Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.

Charles Barkley

#58. Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.

Rick Perry

#59. I am the candidate of tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, repealing Dodd-Frank, letting the markets work, coming up with patient-and-doctor-centered healthcare solutions instead of more big government - and just generally getting government off the backs of small businesses.

Wendy E. Long

#60. 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

#61. 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.

Milton Friedman

#62. 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

#63. The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

William J. Clinton

#64. I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

Rush Limbaugh

#65. Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

Karl Hess

#66. 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

#67. People of my generation knew we needed to move beyond that, the racial division and segregation and unsustainable social relations, that were unfair to millions of people. But it didn't mean that we were going to become a big government liberal.

Jeff Sessions

#68. Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Wendell Phillips

#69. Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires a self-reliant people. A free country requires people who value liberty more than money.

Charley Reese

#70. The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

Foster Friess

#71. 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

#72. Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It's great "customer service," except that you can never get out of the store.

Mark Steyn

#73. Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty?

Chris Christie

#74. Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

Gary Bauer

#75. Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with "big government" when it served their needs.

Howard Zinn

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

Mitch McConnell

#77. Liberals don't love big government because they think it's efficient, compassionate, fair or even remotely useful. They support big government because they are guaranteed the support of nearly everyone who works for the government.

Ann Coulter

#78. I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.

Sebastian Coe

#79. What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

Barack Obama

#80. The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

Bob Barr

#81. You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#82. We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the power in the hands of the people, where it belongs. Big government and big business aren't the only two alternatives.

Michael Monroe

#83. We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

Mitch Daniels

#84. I'm not against business. I'm against big business in bed with big government.

Dave Brat

#85. ObamaCare is not a 'trainwreck,' it is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate, so we agree under duress to accept big government.

Wayne Allyn Root

#86. In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'

James Surowiecki

#87. After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

Mitch McConnell

#88. Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

Lou Barletta

#89. Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.'

Andy Borowitz

#90. Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.

Garrison Keillor

#91. If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.

Rand Paul

#92. The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

Ronald Reagan

#93. Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.

Ted Cruz

#94. For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.

Marco Rubio

#95. Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

Elizabeth Warren

#96. An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.

Timothy Noah

#97. Because Reagan once said, you can't be for big government, big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy. Boy,

Ted Cruz

#98. I may be Anti-Big Government, but only because I am Pro-Human.

Gary Hopkins

#99. The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

Leonard Peltier

#100. 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