Michelle Malkin Quotes

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.

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

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

A government role in our society should be inherently suspect …. There is something inherently coercive in the nature of government.

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.

If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.

The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

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.

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

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

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on 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.

The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

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.

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It's about statism. It's about expanding the government. It's about control over the population. It is about everything but health care.

I think Barack Obama and his team believe that the federal government is best prepared to handle virtually everything in our lives. I mean, they're socialists in every respect of the word and I think they'd like to take over everything in our lives if they could, including health care.

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!

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.