Mark Steyn Quotes

Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

We can restore liberty by taking government out of our bedrooms, our bloodstreams, our bladders, our brains, our businesses and our back-pockets.

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty is made of? Somebody else's money and an endless list of Thou Shalt Nots?

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

I am a Republican because of my military background, my pro-life beliefs, my support for the Second Amendment, and my belief that government should not grow excessively.

The government is already into our lives a whole lot more than they should be. If I were president, I'd roll everything back. Everything!

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

If you feel the government should leave you alone, you're a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you're a Democrat.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

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.

I do not expect any help for a libertarian revolution from any Government in the world…

I hate big government; I hate being told what to do on a personal basis.

If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.