Chris Christie Quotes

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government shall do everything and the idea that government shall do nothing.

The government playing entrepreneur is not a good role for the government.

I'm not here today to tell you government doesn't have a role to play. It does, but it needs to be the right role.

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

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.

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

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

They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government... the only effective cure is to reduce the scope of government - get government out of the business.

"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

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.

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

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

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.