Barry Goldwater Quotes

Have the government get out of the way.

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

The role of a conservative is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

The more reason, the less government.

Attention shouldn't be on finding ways to build a better government; we should be looking at how to get government out of our lives.

The best way for you to keep Government out of your business is to promote competition.

I believe that we need to take government out of business, and then we need to take business and put business back into government because government has no place in our businesses

You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.

With less regulation, I think you would see growth come back. Of course, there are situations where you need regulation. Antitrust regulation, for example, is a good idea because you want competition. But beyond that, it gets very difficult.

I am a believer in smaller government, limited government, less regulation, less taxes, because I think to have more of those things, we suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit of this nation.

I think it's important that we eliminate regulations that are not serving a useful purpose.

When I go around, despite the tax cut, the thing - the things that business as in people like the most is the fact that I'm cutting regulation.

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

The federal government should be less important in our lives, not more.

Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better.

Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. […] Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. […] The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

It’s amazing that people don’t understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.

I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.