Jack Abramoff Quotes

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

I've always been about less government.

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.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

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.

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

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

The Chodorov Principle: For every social problem A caused by government program X, problem A can be solved by abolishing program X.

Government has no other end but the preservation of property.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

I am a strong believer in small government that doesn't interfere in people's lives.

[The Kochs] they hate big government.

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

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.

I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.

The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.

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

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism.

Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved.

There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.