Quotes of: Big-government Keyword

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

Paul Ryan

In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.

Paul Singer

While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake.

Paul Singer

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

Phyllis Schlafly

Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.

Paul Watson

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

Paul Wolfowitz

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

Roy Barnes

I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.

Richard Dawkins

The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine.

Richard Engel

In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.

Richard Flanagan

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

Richard Holbrooke

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

Robert A. Heinlein

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

Robert McChesney

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

Rand Paul

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

Rick Perry

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

Robert Purvis

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Spiro T. Agnew

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

Stephen Ambrose

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.

Scott Cook

I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.

Steve Case

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

Sheikh Hasina