Kathy Szeliga Quotes

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.

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.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

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

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

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

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

The greatest threat to our freedom is an all powerful federal government.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

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.

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

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

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!

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

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

What could be tolerated when government was small cannot be endured when government is big.

Now we’re going to get big government.

Conservatives have deep distrust of government power, so I not only understand their privacy concerns, I share them.

Fox News Latino will show people how opportunities exist, that whenever we are overregulated, or there is too much government, we lose freedom. We lose power. That is, historically, one hundred percent true.

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

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

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

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.