In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business.
The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn't doing anything. You don't watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the '60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.
The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.
It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.
If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
Republicans want to keep the open Internet safe from big government. Democrats want to keep it safe from big corporations. I say we agree to agree and move ahead.
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.
A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.
The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
The Barrow Administration, with its misguided philosophy of big government wanting to own or control every facet of economic activity in Belize, has depressed and squeezed out the private sector. The inevitable result is mass firing of workers, foreclosures, and downsizing.
America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.
In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'
Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.
We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.
