Big Government Quotes - Page 6

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

  Rick Santorum

  Believe, Government, Mind

  "Rick Santorum, 'It Takes a Family'". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 4, 2005.

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

  Mitch McConnell

  Government, Years, America

  "How 'Government' Became A Dirty Word". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 1, 2012.

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• The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

  Leonard Peltier

  Government, Bigs, Fbi

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• Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

  Karl Hess

  Peace, War, Apology

  "Why Americans Hate Politics" by E.J. Dionne, Jr., Simon & Schuster, (p. 267), 2004.

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• 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

  Thinking, Government, Support

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• Conservative concepts believe in little government - take care of yourself, and that makes men who invent things like the constitution! Liberal thought has big government - we'll take care of you - and that creates boys and they create things like Occupy Wall Street! There's a difference between the way men and boys behave.

  Brad Stine

  Wall, Believe, Boys

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• 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

  Jumping, Government, Demand

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• 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

  Believe, Government, Order

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• In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which an ever higher proportion of your assets are annexed by the state as superlandlord. Big government is where nations go to die - not in Keynes' 'long run,' but sooner than you think.

  Mark Steyn

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• Mentioning Jesus in your speech: Small government. Doing what Jesus asked: Big government.

  Stephen Colbert

  Jesus, Government, Speech

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• Offering 'comprehensive' reform usually means years of arguing and horse-trading among pressure groups to get anything done. By the time all the special interests are appeased or bought off, the resulting elephantine legislation typically looks nothing like what was intended. In short, big-government medicine usually doesn't work on big-government sickness. If President Obama wants 'comprehensive' change, it would be better simply not to spend any more money we don't have.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Horse, Mean, Government

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• Americans believe that the private sector is always more efficient and cheaper than big government, and particularly when you go among Republicans, even after five beers, they still believe it. But I always say, "If it's really true, why would they need that 12 percent extra on a traditional government program? Explain to me why something that costs more saves me money as a taxpayer.".

  Uwe Reinhardt

  Believe, Beer, Republican

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• Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich represent the big government frugal socialist wing of the party. And I represent the true constitutional conservative wing of our party.

  Michele Bachmann

  Party, Conservative, Socialist

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• Democrats believed in "progressivism." They believed in Big Government. But they at least attached optimistic outcomes to it. They really believed they were helping America. They really believed they were helping families, helping people. Now they've just become, "The country's horrible, it's rotten, it needs to be reformed!" The liberals of John F. Kennedy's day did not think there was anything really major wrong with this country.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's time to see that there's no such thing as unity in the Democrat Party, ever. They are a disparate coalition of different groups that have one or two unifying precincts: High taxes, Big Government.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Government, Two

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I am frightened by today's world, terrified by it. I think that comes out in the books. I'm afraid of big things. Some of these schools have three thousand kids, and even the size of the schools frightens me. Big government frightens me; so does big defense.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, School, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you know, a working-class insurgency from below, they are a mass of contradictions; they don't have a single consistent viewpoint; but part of their impulse is to be wary of government.

  Bill Ayers

  Party, Government, Class

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell's Angels regalia came in and sat in the front and scowled at me while I gave my talk. And afterwards the head of the group got to the microphone and said, I'm surprised that I agree with almost everything you said, but I'm worried that you're a big government guy.

  Bill Ayers

  Party, Angel, Government

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• One of the things that makes me a conservative, or a libertarian, or whatever the heck it is that I am - a person who doesn't much like big government - is that I do not like the concentration of the power.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Libertarian, Conservative

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• [The Kochs] they hate big government.

  Jane Mayer

  Hate, Government, Bigs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

  Jobs, Class, Government

  "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Chris Christie's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• When you as an American have freedom, the freedom encompasses a lot of things, including the right to do dumb stuff, to do destructive things. You have that right, and liberals somehow, for some reason want to just take control of every aspect of your life as possible, and every time you accede to letting them have it, or big government - you're just letting them have more and more control over your life. Where do you stop that? What's wrong with people regulating themselves? Where did that vanish to?

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Over You, Dumb

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big government, with plenty of special interest plums: Big unions get big spending and big business gets corporate welfare and special tax breaks - all at the expense of average Americans.

  John McCain

  Government, Average, Games

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• 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.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Guy, Bills

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• A Republican establishment member in the media would be David Brooks in the New York Times, the so-called conservative columnist. He's basically a moderate. He favors big government if run by the people he thinks are smart. He's not crazy about conservatives.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Crazy, Smart

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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