Gary Johnson Quotes

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

I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.

My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise - that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world.

I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.

I've always been about less government.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

I think, as Republicans, we need to stick by what we believe in. And that is fiscal conservatism and individual freedom.

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.

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

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.

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.

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

I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.

Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

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.

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

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

Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility.

I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.

I'm a confirmed Libertarian. I believe that the principal difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats just want to grow our Imperial Federal Government a bit faster than the Republicans do.

Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

Real conservatives are in favour of all kinds of unelected power and authority.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...