The opposite of Big Government is not small government…

“...small government gives you big freedoms--and Big Government leaves you with very little freedom. The opposite of Big Government is not small government, but…

— Mark Steyn

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.

— Barack Obama

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

— Pavel Durov

We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the…

— Michael Monroe

Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions…

— Ron Paul

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

— Ronald Reagan

“I’m for a big government. A big government contraction.”

— Jarod Kintz

Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury…

— George Will

Fascism is actually the work of the synergistic effort of big government and big corporations working together to stifle the people. And that's what…

— Aaron Russo

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…

— Thomas Naylor

Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of…

— Norman Vincent Peale

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…

— Antonis Samaras

“You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

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