"It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high."
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"Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?"
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"In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world."
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"This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs."
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"Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive."
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"In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government."
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"We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government."
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"Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society."
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"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."
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"No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted."
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"So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice."
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"A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!"
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"No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy."
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"Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society."
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"I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals."
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"I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing."
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"Public opinion in this country is everything."
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"It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives."
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"If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work."
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"Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy."
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