Quotes of: Big-government Keyword

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

Richard M. Nixon

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

Richard M. Nixon

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

Rand Paul

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

Rand Paul

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.

Reince Priebus

In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

Rick Perry

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

Rick Perry

Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

Robert Reich

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Ronald Reagan

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Ronald Reagan

The government is already into our lives a whole lot more than they should be. If I were president, I'd roll everything back. Everything!

Ray Stevens

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

Sam Brownback

This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs.

Sherrod Brown

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

Sidney Blumenthal

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

Stephen Breyer

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

Stephen Harper

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

Steve Irwin

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

Sue Kelly

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

Subcomandante Marcos

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

Steven Rattner