Mark Steyn Quotes

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

Governments are not normally concerned with the welfare of the people they govern.

Frankly, health care and politics are 'inextricably intertwined.'

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's as simple as that.

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your government is doing to you.

We are the only major country in the world that does not guarentee health care to its citizens as a right.

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

Health care, whether I like it or not, is at the foundation of my public service.

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

Government is connected to everything we do.

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.