Laura Ingraham Quotes

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

People are probably going to realize they can live with a lot less government than what they thought they needed.

The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

You came out of your mother’s belly without government. You have lived so far without the help of government …. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well looked upon?

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Good government can be no substitute for self-government.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.

We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

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

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

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

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.