Dalai Lama Quotes

While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake.

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

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

There's a lot of stuff out there that government shouldn't do.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

Government cannot be all things to all people.

The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

If you like big government, move to Massachusetts.

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.

While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.

Government has much wider dimensions than merely managing an economy.

The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old "laissez faire" school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval.

There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.

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

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

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

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.