Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Badnarik

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

Michael Badnarik

The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you.

Ray Bradbury

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Ramsey Clark

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

Rand Paul

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

Rand Paul

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

Rand Paul

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

Rand Paul

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

Rand Paul

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

Rand Paul

What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do

Rand Paul

Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives.

Rand Paul

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

Rand Paul

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

Rand Paul

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

Rand Paul

The other thing to realize is that almost all these shootings, including this shooting [in San-Bernardino], happened in a government building where people are not allowed to defend themselves. While it's not the ultimate answer, the ultimate answer would be no violence, part of the answer is saying, "We need to allow people to defend themselves."

Rand Paul

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

Rand Paul

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

Rand Paul

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

Rand Paul

The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.

Ralph Peters

We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.

Ralph Nader

Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.

Ralph Nader

The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.

There is a reason why you see such an antagonism to religion. Because communism necessitates the destruction of religion for one reason. Communism needs for government to be your God. So there cannot be any alliance to anything but government. So an alliance to God must be destroyed. That's why socialism and anti-religion go together.

Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

Sharron Angle

I knew that if we were going to actually defeat Harry Reid, we had to have a candidate who would offer a sharp policy contrast. Someone who would not just pay lip service to limited government principles, but had a solid record of voting that way time and again. I'm that candidate.

Sharron Angle

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage

Sharron Angle

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.

Sharron Angle

We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

Sharron Angle

The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our government becomes tyrannical

George W. Bush

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

George W. Bush

Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.

George W. Bush

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.