The anti-big-government movement is pure. Its participants…

At its core, conservatism is not an anti-government movement, and it's not a no-government movement.

— Marco Rubio

There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by…

— J. D. Vance

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…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local representatives…

— Jasper Fforde

Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist…

— Karl Hess

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…

— Dick Armey

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,…

— Murray Rothbard

Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive…

— Oliver DeMille

I'm not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job.

— Scott Baio

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

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…

— Marco Rubio

I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of…

— Zephyr Teachout

Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better…

— Dean Koontz

Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that…

— Howard Zinn

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse.…

— Gary Bauer