Jesse Ventura Quotes

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

Big government makes small citizens.

The real problem is that "limited government" invariably leads to unlimited government. If history is to be any guide and current experience is to be any guide, we in the United States 200 years ago started out with the notion of limited government - virtually no government interference - and we now have a massive quasi-totalitarian government.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

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.

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

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

Now we’re going to get big government.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

Government has gotten too big, and it's infringed on our liberty and freedom.

What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.

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

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

One could argue the GOP made no progress on limiting government in their four years of total control from 2002 to 2006. If anything, government expanded like never before.

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.

I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.