Citizens Quote by William Weld

Big government makes small citizens.

— Mark Steyn

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

— Rand Paul

In America we believe there ought to be limits on government.

— Karl Rove

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands,…

— William Lloyd Garrison

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people; it wasn't intended to be all things to all people.

— Nikki Haley

“Big Government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically.”

— Mark Steyn

We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less,…

— Margaret Thatcher

Sometimes we don't realize that the government is for the people by the people.

— Bushwick Bill

Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every…

— Ronald Reagan

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions

— Roy Barnes

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

— Barack Obama