Top 45 Big Government Quotes

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

It’s businesses versus big government. We don’t need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that’s exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver.

I think, with Obama and the progressives, you’ve seen a massive expansion of big government, and it’s all based on a moral premise. The moral premise is that wealth is theft. And I don’t just mean the wealth of America, I mean, your wealth, my wealth.

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.

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.

The ‘American Families Plan’ is not about helping American families, it is about redefining what it means to be an American family – allowing for big government to infiltrate Alabamians homes and daily lives.

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.

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

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.

I believe in small governments or no governments. I think the majority of people want to have big government, a big brother taking care of them.

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.

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

A lot of people are concerned about, for example, the ability of big government to inhibit our liberties and choice. Big data can engineer a situation that limits our choice and our freedom. And it’s not a partisan issue.

We can’t sit around waiting for big government, big business, big religion etc. to save us. We need to get informed and take inspired action.

Republicans want to keep the open Internet safe from big government. Democrats want to keep it safe from big corporations. I say we agree to agree and move ahead.

The Barrow Administration, with its misguided philosophy of big government wanting to own or control every facet of economic activity in Belize, has depressed and squeezed out the private sector. The inevitable result is mass firing of workers, foreclosures, and downsizing.

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.

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.

What people want is big government that they don’t have to pay for.

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

The Democrats’ agenda isn’t working for women. Their vision has produced big government and limited opportunity. Our vision is for limited government and opportunity for all. Women deserve better than what President Obama has delivered.

Socialism doesn’t work. A big government doesn’t work.

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.

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

I’m as deeply suspicious of big government as anyone. I’m strongly in favor of universal coverage but not single payer.

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.

Stacey Abrams – very articulate, very smart, but she just has radical views on wanting to grow government, raising taxes, trying to have these big government policies that didn’t work in the Barack Obama administration.

In Washington, we’ve seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big government solutions under Speaker Pelosi’s control.

President Obama likes to talk about winning the future. But someone needs to tell him: You can’t win the prosperity of tomorrow if you’re mortgaging it to pay for the big government programs of today.

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.

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.

The perverse gift of the Chinese coronavirus is that it has given Americans an up close and personal look at the horrors of big government – and, by extension, socialism.

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

You know, I sure hope this alt-left movement doesn’t succeed because, I sure don’t want to live in a world where success is punished – and ambitions are thwarted by big government. That is not the American way – and, it’s certainly not a path for success.

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.

‘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.

The untold secret driving the obstruction to Obama’s economic equality agenda is this: The opposition isn’t really battling Big Government. The opposition is protecting an economic system that’s putting more and more of the earned income out of reach for those aspiring to better themselves.

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

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.

So you can say, ‘Get Big Government out of here, and don’t tell me what to eat,’ but when kids are going to school, and they’re being fed junk, we’re pretty much telling them what to eat, and we’re telling them junk is OK.

Though I’ve never been a supporter of big government, the reclamation of our fisheries, which, done correctly, would be worth several billion pounds a year, should be a cabinet position with its own department.

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

I hate big government; I hate being told what to do on a personal basis.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.