Big Government Quotes - Page 8

• 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

  Government, Hands, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• "Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.

  Van Jones

  Mean, Government, America

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers who want to impose their version of 'righteousness' on others through the hammer of law.... Our movement must avoid the temptations of power and those who would twist the good intentions of Christian voters to support policies that undermine freedom and grow government.

  Dick Armey

  Christian, Independent, Government

  "Christians and Big Government - Why faith requires freedom". FreedomWorks (freedomworks.org), October 12, 2006.

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• Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65.

  Marcia Angell

  Thinking, Government, Years

  "Message from Massachusetts" by Marcia Angell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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• The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

  Bobby Jindal

  Government, People, Belief

  "Jindal: Obama's woes flow out of big government philosophy" By Bobby Jindal, www.cnn.com. May 24, 2013.

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• 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

  Country, Winning, Government

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• 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

  Government, Hands, Republican

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• The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government. The income tax has given us a government bureaucracy that outnumbers the manufacturing work force. It has created welfare dependencies that have entrapped millions of Americans in an underclass that is forced to live a sordid existence of trading votes for government handouts.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Government, America, Income

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• The era of resisting big government is never over.

  Paul Gigot

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

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