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Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism. — Paul Broun

We have accepted there is a big role for government to create a framework where businesses can grow in all parts of the country. — George Osborne

No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments. — Angela Merkel

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed. — Sarah Palin

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

Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor. — Charles Barkley

A quote from the American Thomas Jefferson. A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. — Steve Berry

I would vote for you for President but I'm against big government. — Jeff Ross

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well. — Rand Paul

We fought for freedom together. We had no government, no weapons to help us. We defeated such a big empire without any government, without any arms. — Narendra Modi

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

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

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power. — Bob Barr

Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none. — Bruce Sterling

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

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

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. — Wendell Phillips

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

A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations. — Jack Layton

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

In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.' — P. J. O'Rourke

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord. — Zhuangzi

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder. — Karl Hess

War is just one more big government program. — Joseph Sobran

Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items. — Rob Lowe

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us. — Rush Limbaugh

We're a country of rule of law, and rule of law doesn't move fast, especially in an entity as big the U.S. government. — Sherrod Brown

There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector. — Rush Limbaugh

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government. — Bob Hope

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind. — Ronald Reagan

You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending. — Milton Friedman

Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism. — Mark Tooley

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion. — Marco Rubio

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers. — Mikhail Prokhorov

It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out. — Tim Pawlenty

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives. — Mark Steyn

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

I'm not pro-government at all, I'm pro-people. — Big Boi

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

Big government squashes the human spirit — Dennis Prager

The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great. — Foster Friess

Big government = oligarchy.
Simple equation.
Big government = loss of representation. — A.E. Samaan

Big government makes small citizens. — Mark Steyn

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist. — George Orwell

I'm not against business. I'm against big business in bed with big government. — Dave Brat

Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

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

Bill Clinton is the guy that said, "The era of Big Government is over." Whether or not he meant it or not, he said it. — Rush Limbaugh

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

If people give up their attachment to expansive government, they will feel free to fight the income tax. — Sheldon Richman

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer. — Marco Rubio

In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business. — Robert Reich

Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for. — Elizabeth Warren

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

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. — Chester Bowles

Talk about threats to national security
how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way? — Bob Schieffer

If suffering through four years of hellishly misguided big government is the price we pay for true reform, it may in the end be worth it. — Peter D. Schiff

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government. — George Monbiot

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity. — Paul Ryan

Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.' — Andy Borowitz

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

The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats. — Glenn Greenwald

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas. — Jack Markell

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. — Larry Ellison

Sandel hankers for the muscular debates of yesteryear, when government was not big but had bigger ambitions than today's bland Leviathan has. — George F. Will

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. — Bill O'Reilly

Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state. — John Stossel

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

Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government. — Jonah Goldberg

Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it. — Ann Coulter

Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by. — A.E. Samaan

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. — Jack Anderson

If you like big government, move to Massachusetts. — Joe Miller

I may be Anti-Big Government, but only because I am Pro-Human. — Gary Hopkins

It's that big guy who's the government. — Victor Hugo

The era of big government is over. — William J. Clinton

Because Reagan once said, you can't be for big government, big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy. Boy, — Ted Cruz

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government. — Barack Obama

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work! — Lou Barletta

Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by. — A.E. Samaan

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

Big-government liberals don't like people with a sense of independence because independent people don't need big government. — Neal Boortz

Government is big, we are small. We are only free when we slip through the cracks. — Maureen F. McHugh

The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost. — Stacey Dash

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct. — Robert Anton Wilson

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

The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust. — Tony Blair

The FBI has always supported big business and big government. — Leonard Peltier

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away — Barry M. Goldwater

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

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. — Honore De Balzac

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — Barack Obama

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent. — Marco Rubio

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it. — William Greider

No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers. — Ronald Reagan

The era of resisting big government is never over. — Paul Gigot

Sorry, I didn't see the big X with the words Top Secret Government Laboratory on the map, did you? — Julie Kagawa

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change? — Chris Christie

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions — Ibrahim Ali