Marco Rubio Quotes

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks.

Government can’t deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch.

Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.

Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

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

We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that.

Government is just spending too much money.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.'

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.

If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.

When government grows, it breaks the family.

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

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.