Neal Boortz Quotes

What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.

People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.

What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.

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

The more is given, the less the people will work for themselves

There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.

Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.

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

I am responsible for no one but myself.

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

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.