This collection holds 81 big government quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Joseph Sobran, Lou Barletta and Joe Miller.

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War is just one more big government program.

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

If you like big government, move to Massachusetts.

Socialism doesn't work. A big government doesn't work.

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.

I hate big government; I hate being told what to do on a personal basis.

Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'

Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

In 1996, Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in the State of the Union address.

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

Paul Ryan says he's for smaller government, and he's funded every big government idea that there is.

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.

Moreover, Hispanics' sympathy for big government represents a cultural predilection as well as an economic one.

Lincoln Davis has supported Nancy Pelosi's anti-business, big government policies a disturbing 83% of the time.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.

I'm as deeply suspicious of big government as anyone. I'm strongly in favor of universal coverage but not single payer.

Whether you're a veteran or a millennial, it's hard to argue that big government has solved your problems efficiently, if at all.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

Reducing the entanglement of Big Government in order to benefit people with disabilities should be a top priority for the Republican party.

In Washington, we've seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big government solutions under Speaker Pelosi's control.

The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

It seems like not a lot of the world's issues can be solved by big government. But they can be solved by brands, and brands putting their best foot forward need advertising.

It's businesses versus big government. We don't need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that's exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

Millennials don't believe that government is the most effective in solving problems, and that lack of faith in big government is an opportunity for Republicans to win over millennials.

If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.

My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.

President Obama likes to talk about winning the future. But someone needs to tell him: You can't win the prosperity of tomorrow if you're mortgaging it to pay for the big government programs of today.

Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.

I'm running for Congress to reverse Obama's big government policies, to be faithful to the principles on which our nation was founded, and to make members of Congress play by the same rules as the rest of us.

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.

Stacey Abrams - very articulate, very smart, but she just has radical views on wanting to grow government, raising taxes, trying to have these big government policies that didn't work in the Barack Obama administration.

So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.

Here in Tennessee, instead of the big spending, big government, job killing agenda of the Obama Administration, Tennesseans have tightened their belts and are struggling to find jobs that will enable them to support their families.

The Democrats' agenda isn't working for women. Their vision has produced big government and limited opportunity. Our vision is for limited government and opportunity for all. Women deserve better than what President Obama has delivered.

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