Jason Chaffetz Quotes

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

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

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.

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.'

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big 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 was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.

Big government makes small citizens.

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

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

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

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

Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

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.