Scope Of Government Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

Grover Norquist

#3. The rule of law constitutes a basic protection of individuals against tyrannical government. But in the second half of the twentieth century, law lost its focus as a constraint on government and became instead an instrument for widening the scope of government.

Francis Fukuyama

#4. Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.

Grover Norquist

#6. When used as an instrument of enforcement, the courts have morphed from constraints on government to mechanisms by which the scope of government has enormously expanded.

Francis Fukuyama

#7. The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.

Mitch McConnell

#8. I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

Gail Collins

#9. The Republican name used to be synonymous with limiting the size and scope of government, and we need to re-establish that reputation. We must work to eliminate government waste, make certain taxpayer dollars go to meaningful programs, and leave resources directly with the people.

Tim Walberg

#10. Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way.

John H. Vincent

#11. No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Ronald Reagan

#12. You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place?

A.E. Samaan

#13. If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians.

Rush Limbaugh

#14. The drive ... is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope ...

Larry McDonald

#15. As government expands, liberty contracts.

Ronald Reagan

#16. He snorts in disbelief. Is that yet another miracle of Mortain? That His acolytes are able to contort themselves enough to tend to their own backs?

Robin LaFevers

#17. The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old "laissez faire" school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval.

William Howard Taft

#18. I want to believe your love is only for me. That your lips are mine. That your kisses are meant for me. That your body belongs to me." His arms move to my waist and tighten around me and he presses his hard body against mine. "But when you leave me to see him, it's hard to know for sure.

Kim Karr

#19. Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.

Yochai Benkler

#20. But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

James Q. Wilson

#21. I don't believe we need any more taxes. We need to curtail the size of government. That seems to be a common thread among a majority of Americans out there that understand that we have to limit the size and scope of our government.

Jeff Landry

#22. Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

Ronald Reagan

#23. Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Edward Gibbon

#24. Scarlet shut the door behind her, leaning against it as she responded. "I came because you have been in great pain."
"Yes. And because of my great pain you still live. It seems my isolation is good for your wellbeing."
"The strength of my pulse has little to do with the health of my heart.

Chelsea Fine

#25. Never submit we are all equals

Heather Nelson

#26. Sometimes I have to remind myself to breathe. You would think it would be an innate human instinct but no, i inhale and forget to exhale and so I find my body rigid, all tensed up, heart pounding , chest tight with an anxious head wondering what's wrong.

Cecelia Ahern

#27. The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and power of government. Tyranny, restrictions on human freedom, come primarily from governmental restrictions that we ourselves have set up.

Milton Friedman

#28. The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

James Madison

#29. We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Jason Chaffetz

#30. You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.

Henry Rollins

#31. The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time.

Cynthia Kadohata

#32. History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Thomas Jefferson

#33. I'd also heard that humans were a life-form of, at best, middling intelligence and prone to violence, deep sexual embarrassment, bad poetry, and walking around in circles.

Matt Haig

#34. The first doesn't necessarily the last, but it will always be the first, and that's special. Firsts are special.

Jenny Han

#35. Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

Ronald Reagan

#36. The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Ronald Reagan

#37. My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

Thomas Vilsack

#38. I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check.

John Adams

#39. We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

Ronald Reagan

#40. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Ronald Reagan