Connie Mack Quotes

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!

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

The more reason, the less government.

The less government we have, the better—the fewer laws, and the less confided power.

I don’t want to kill the government. I just want to shrink it down to a small enough size that I can flush it down the toilet.

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

The less government we have the better.

Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

I don’t want to eliminate government. I just want to shrink it down to the size that you can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the tub.

There was a time that you could say the least government was the best—but not in the nation's most populous state.

A government role in our society should be inherently suspect …. There is something inherently coercive in the nature of government.

We can restore liberty by taking government out of our bedrooms, our bloodstreams, our bladders, our brains, our businesses and our back-pockets.

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

I am a strong believer in small government that doesn't interfere in people's lives.

I'm one of those guys who believes in next to zero government. They just screw everything up.

They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government... the only effective cure is to reduce the scope of government - get government out of the business.

I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

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

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.