Big Government Quotes - Page 3

• No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way. On the contrary, big governments are inherently inefficient and harmful.

  Charles Koch

  Powerful, Smart, Government

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• Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation which defies central management and control. Not only is the United States too big, but it has also become too authoritarian and too undemocratic, and its states assume too little responsibility for the solution of their own social, economic, and political problems.

  Thomas Naylor

  Military, Responsibility, Government

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• When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

  Karl Hess

  Government, Murder, Ends

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• 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

  Government, Average, People

  "Dan Rather: Corporate Media ‘Is In Bed With’ Washington", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2012.

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• 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 C. Burgess

  Believe, Government, Empowering

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• More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, – it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around? But more money makes its monopolistic producer (the central bank) and its earliest recipients (the government and big, government-connected banks and their major clients) richer at the expense of making the money's late and latest receivers poorer.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Country, Government, People

  "Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Impracticality of One-World Government and the Failure of Western-style Democracy". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 27, 2011.

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• Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!"

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wall, War, Heart

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• What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the government-subsidized sector, staffing the welfare regulatory state, and apologizing for its policies, as well as propagandizing for them among the public. To put it bluntly, intellectuals, theorists, pundits, media elites, etc. get to live a life which they could not attain on the free market, but which they can gain at taxpayer expense.

  Murray Rothbard

  Jobs, Government, Media

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• Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound private investment. Obama has no real wealth to inject into the economy. He can only move around existing money while inflation robs us of purchasing power. Meanwhile, private investors who might have produced a better engine, battery, computer, cancer treatment or other wealth-creating and life-enhancing innovations hold back for fear that big government will undermine productive efforts.

  John Stossel

  Real, Cancer, Moving

  "Arrogant Conceit". townhall.com. December 24, 2008.

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

  Mark Tooley

  Government, Justice, Wild Geese

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• Big government is the most corrupt industry in America.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Government, America, Bigs

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• 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

  Thinking, Government, Scope

  Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government, www.youtube.com. September 14, 2012.

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• 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

  Order, Government, Needs

  Source: www.slate.com

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• There is an apocalyptic view to this that is actually kind of appealing, which is the only way to kill big government is to let it kill itself. It's suicide by gluttony. Right now, the government is approaching Fat Elvis during those years in the '70s right before he croaked on the toilet seat. Basically ObamaCare is a huge tray of bacon and banana sandwiches. And it could happen in our lifetimes.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Suicide, Views, Years

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Big government flourishes under Republicans.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Republican, Bigs

  "Republican Congressman Slams Bush On Militarized Police State Preparation". "The Alex Jones Show", www.prisonplanet.com. October 12, 2005.

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• 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

  Philosophy, Government, Years

  "Reagan vs. Bush: Federal Spending and Budget Deficits" by John McIntyre, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 17, 2006.

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• 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.

  Pete Sessions

  Country, Government, Messages

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• 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

  Government, Years, People

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined ... .

  Bill Moyers

  Running, Believe, Eye

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• These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the same stale Washington ideas. Five decades and trillions of dollars after President Johnson waged his War on Poverty, the results of this big-government approach are in.

  Marco Rubio

  Educational, War, Opportunity

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• Big government makes small citizens.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Citizens, Bigs

  Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.90, Regnery Publishing

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

  Rick Perry

  Winning, Government, Office

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• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, Government

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• Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Cute, Government, Names

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• 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

  Jobs, Tired, Government

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