Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big…

Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of…

— Rick Perry

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…

— Marco Rubio

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