In 1996, Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in the State of the Union address. — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.' — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
Prosperity is not purchased through the expansion of big government 'safety net' programs. — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder. — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Moreover, Hispanics' sympathy for big government represents a cultural predilection as well as an economic one. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller,… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power. — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
I spent my older teen years holding my tongue while my Hollywood coworkers gushed about big government, attacked anyone to the Right… — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
President Obama likes to talk about winning the future. But someone needs to tell him: You can't win the prosperity of tomorrow… — John Thune Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton is the guy that said, "The era of Big Government is over." Whether or not he meant it or not,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody… — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
Liberals don't love big government because they think it's efficient, compassionate, fair or even remotely useful. They support big government because they… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
“We are told that this child was born in order to rule, for the government will be upon his shoulder. And the… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
The (Supreme Court) ruling that anyone who's arrested -- even accidentally -- can be strip-searched was decided five to four, with the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
There is an apocalyptic view to this that is actually kind of appealing, which is the only way to kill big government… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell's Angels regalia came in and… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
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… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
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… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
“...small government gives you big freedoms--and Big Government leaves you with very little freedom. The opposite of Big Government is not small… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Obama was far more conservative than Richard Nixon, for example, and this has been the Democratic story since Boomers started voting en… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“The individualist insists that drastic depressions are the result of credit inflation; (not excessive savings, as the Keynesians would have it) which… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“For some hippies, this vision could only be realised by rejecting scientific progress as a false God and returning to nature. Others,… — Richard Barbrook Copy Share Image
I'm not against business. I'm against big business in bed with big government. — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I hate big government; I hate being told what to do on a personal basis. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
“The opposite of Big Government is not small government, but Big Liberty.” — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image