Mike Rosen Quotes

While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake.

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

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.

The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not the creation of new problems.

In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.

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

American ideology is anti government. There is a streak of libertarianism on both conservatives and liberals.

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

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

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

Don't get me wrong, I am a proud Republican, and I want to support my party. I am a firm believer in the Republican principles of smaller government, low taxes and economic freedom. I have spent my time in government service fighting for these principles.

The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

I've always been about less government.