Heather Wilson Quotes

I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.

I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

I've always been about less government.

As conservatives, we know our principles, and we also know the best ideas do not always come from Washington.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

I think, as Republicans, we need to stick by what we believe in. And that is fiscal conservatism and individual freedom.

Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.

Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.

My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise - that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world.

I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.

We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.

You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

I'm a bit of a Libertarian.

Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.

That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.

I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.