David Pratt Quotes

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

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

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

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

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!

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

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

Let the federal government take care of its values, not yours.

As we seek to improve the management of the federal government, we should keep in mind that the government is not a private corporation. What may make sense for a large corporation may not always make sense for the federal government. In our quest for efficiency, we must not lose sight of the reasons why we enacted certain federal programs in the first place.

People have increasingly come to regard the government as a source of rights rather than as a defender of pre-existing individual rights.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage…

Government has a rightful role, but not an excessive role, to play.

I know a lot about what government does do, can do, should do.

It matters more how governments behave than how big they are.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

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

I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is flooding all of America with its encroachment.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.