Mark Steyn Quotes

Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.

Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly everyone on the planet in some potentially adverse way, and it may be that governments have done too little to address it. It is not a problem, however, that has escaped the attention of policymakers in the Executive and Legislative Branches of our Government, who continue to consider regulatory, legislative, and treaty-based means of addressing global climate change.

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

If you feel the government should leave you alone, you're a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you're a Democrat.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

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

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

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

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.

The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people.

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.

Cigarettes are bad, but taxes and big government are worse.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.