Ken Cuccinelli Quotes

Every amendment which I am convinced will have the tendency to lesson the danger of civil liberty by the central government will receive my sincere approbation.

I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system.

Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it.

We are not at liberty to add one jot of power to the national government beyond what the people have granted by the constitution

The great object in view is to limit and qualify the powers of government.

There simply is no greater threat to individual liberty and the viability of our great nation than the threat that comes from the continued consolidation of power in Washington, a consolidation that flies in the face of the division of power between the federal government and the states that is required by the Constitution.

We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.

A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.

In America we believe there ought to be limits on government.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

We should have a very limited federal government.

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

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power.

Where in the Constitution does it give the federal government the right to be involved with crime control to begin with.

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

Americans are naturally suspicious of too much government and they see divided government as a safeguard.

No branch of government should ever be able to combine the power of the sword with the power of the purse.

Bind down our politicians with the chains of our Constitution.

We can’t trust government to limit its powers to the Constitution.

Can government really be active and, at the same time, limited? History suggests otherwise.

Aided by a little sophistry on the words "general welfare," the federal government claims a right to do not only the acts to effect that which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think or pretend will be for the general welfare.