Jan Brewer Quotes

Government can’t deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch.

Government cannot solve our problems. It can't set our goals. It cannot define our vision. Government cannot eliminate poverty or provide a bountiful economy or reduce inflation or save our cities.

The essence of government is making necessary choices between competing uses of public resources.

Government cannot be all things to all people.

I know that I pay 48 percent of my income to taxes. You know, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't going just to export war. If it was actually going to help the people of the United States, I would gladly pay more.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

When government grows, it breaks the family.

Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

There is no escape from the cost of public needs.

Very few governments have the money to meet the needs of their people….The private sector has most of the resources.

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.

I think governments can't do much.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

What the government gives it must first take away.

We're moving more and more toward user fees, but the people who use social service programs obviously don't have the ability to pay for them.

Politics is economics in action.

If the people are not getting what the people need, you shouldn’t be paying for it.

We want public services but we do not want to pay for them

Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another

Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.