Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

It ought to be considered a reward for good citizenship and good parenting to get into public housing.

While it won't solve all the world's ills - and ideas such as a rent cap and more social housing are necessary in places where housing is scarce - a basic income would work like venture capital for the people.

What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.

It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs.

MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country.

There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.

I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.

In 1996, Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in the State of the Union address.

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.

Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.

Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.

No one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.

We are not very good out keeping out things with subsidies.

I don’t want to eliminate government. I just want to shrink it down to the size that you can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the tub.

The relief now given by the Poor Laws is so widely extended that no man of humanity could venture to propose their immediate abolition.

I don’t want to kill the government. I just want to shrink it down to a small enough size that I can flush it down the toilet.

The question today is not whether the government is too small or too small, but whether or not it works