Sonny Perdue Quotes

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

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

Government has gotten too big, and it's infringed on our liberty and freedom.

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

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!

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

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

My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything.

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.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.

Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.

Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.

If it's not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis, we can expect a continuous and dangerous march toward corporatism and even fascism with even more loss of our liberties.

Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

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.

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.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.