Rick Santorum Quotes on Government (7 Quotes)

They'll go to any extent to try to avoid ... any discussion about shrinking the size of government. Being more responsible with the taxpayers' dollars is just so painful that they had to go into private session to recoup and come out again hopefully soon so we can get back to the business at hand,

But what about religious youngsters who find themselves in a public school hermetically sealed off from all religious influences Would not the school, and therefore the government, tacitly be communicating to religious youngsters that prayer, religion, and faith are not really welcome in America's public square That is where we have ended up Court-sanctioned hostility to religious influence in American society, all in the name of neutrality.

I think it was a consensus among members of Congress, and I think the president is receptive to the idea.

The No. 1 concern of the federal government is national security. It has to be.

Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

You don't hear the complaints about . . . the red tape, the bureaucracy and the inefficiency in the nonprofit sector, particularly the faith-based sector, the churches, who were out there on the front line meeting needs literally the day after the devastation occurred. That's something we not only need to praise and be thankful for but to encourage and to support financially on behalf of the government.

The president . . . is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home.