Mark Levin Quotes

A minimum-wage law, a law that prevents employers and employees from entering into mutually beneficial economic exchanges, is as far from a free market or free enterprise as one can get. That's why it causes so much damage and destruction, especially to black teenagers and others whose labor, for one reason or another, is valued by employers at less than the government-established minimum wage.

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

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

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

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

Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

There isn’t that much that Washington can do to effect the economy.

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

I've made it very clear that the government should get out of the business of trying to affect the markets, of trying to pick winners and losers.

Progressives think progress depends upon (that is, they sometimes define progress as) the concentration of power as high as possible in government’s regulatory apparatus.

I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.

Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.

Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.

And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. If the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. Every single time.

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

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

It is no accident that wherever the State ha taken economic decision away from the citizen, it has deprived him of his other liberties as well.