Rush Limbaugh Quotes

An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.

I vote for every privatization bill that I can. It is the Left that opposes privatization. They just want to preserve their government jobs.

If you start with the presumptions that liberals do, that corporations are evil and it all descends from that and that government is great and that government's there to make sure corporations play fair and are not mean and do not rip people off, there's a little bit of truth in everything. Some corporations are bad, some corporations have done bad things, but as a general rule, it's dangerous to subscribe to things like that.

What is Maximum Governance, Minimum Government? It means government has no business to be in business.

The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything.

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

It should not be the government running the economy.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This leads them to believe that the market mechanism can take care of all the problems.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

Markets are smart and governments are dumb.

I believe that we need to take government out of business, and then we need to take business and put business back into government because government has no place in our businesses

You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

Our message in NSW is government don't need to run businesses that are out of date when the private sector can do that better.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

The left hates capitalism, not because of freedom and liberty - although they do. But the primary they hate capitalism is that it is the most efficient engine to create wealth for the greatest number of people in a society that has ever been devised. Nobody's ever claimed it's perfect. Nobody's ever said it's flawless. But it's better than anything else out there, particularly anything left has to offer.

What do you think the appropriate role of government is in society? The way I look at this job is, you want me to do X? Well, is the private sector doing X with any kind of success? Because if they are, I'd rather have them do it than have us do it.

People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators is that they almost always make things worse. If regulators did nothing, the self-correcting mechanisms of the market would mitigate most problems with more finesse. And less cost.