Mark Levin Quotes

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is flooding all of America with its encroachment.

America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.

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

I am the Federal Government.

Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it.

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.

Let the national government be armed with positive and complete authority.

The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivalry of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in fine, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream

It's about food. It's about your home. It's about your life. The government is worried about all of the above. All I'm saying is you should be worried they're worried. Here's why: They're telling you that you can't take care of yourself. You can't be trusted with what you put in your mouth or what you sign on the mortgage dotted line. So they'll tell you what to put in your mouth and they'll save you from what you signed on that dotted line. Does anyone see a trend here? Personal responsibility has now become government responsibility.

Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.

[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.

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

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

The seeds of today's runaway government were planted when it was decided that government should help those who can't help themselves. From that modest, compassionate beginning to today's out-of-control mega-state, there's a straight, unbroken line. Once the door was open, once it was settled that the government should help some people at the expense of others, there was no stopping it.

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.

The era of resisting big government is never over.

The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.