Big Government Quotes (page 3)

• 
• 
• 

• giving
• enough
• enough is enough

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

• thinking
• support
• author

We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan and it could be done. We think Dodd-Frank, which we supported parts of, gave the FDIC the authority to take down a big bank. Jamie Dimon

• giving
• enough
• enough is enough

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away Barry Goldwater

• giving
• enough
• enough is enough

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have. Barry Goldwater

• time
• effort
• job

I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement. Mark Cuban

• government
• succeeding
• govern

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed. Sarah Palin

• new
• powerful
• power

New Hampshire state government is a big customer for prescription drug companies. Just as businesses do, we should take advantage of the bargaining power we have as a big customer. John Lynch

• bad
• brother
• self

They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because they like it, and I wouldn't ever interfere with their pleasures, and so of the other shop. And I was patronizing the other shop. More, badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools... Anthony Burgess

• government
• enough is enough
• strong

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. Gerald R. Ford

• government
• guy
• the who

It's that big guy who's the government. Victor Hugo

• enough is enough
• strong
• enough

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have ~Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson

• political
• mindfulness
• power

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole... Philip K. Dick

• pool
• people
• fire

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big. Austan Goolsbee

• thinking
• affection
• government

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. Milton Friedman

• common sense
• government
• different

There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything. Cass Sunstein