Government Takeover Quotes:

But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

- Jim McDermott

topic: Hurt, Thinking, Government, Abomination, Takeovers

You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.

- Mike Pence

topic: Government, Dollars, Care, Takeovers, Government Takeover

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.

- Paul Ryan

source: "POLITICO Interview: Rep. Paul Ryan". POLITICO Interview, www.politico.com. March 23, 2010.

topic: Running, Jobs, Government, Takeovers, Raising Taxes

From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.

- Jeb Hensarling

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Opportunity, Government, Obamacare, Takeovers, Economic Crisis

Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands. ... 'Rights, as our founding fathers conceived them, are not claims to economic goods, but freedoms of action.

- Ilana Mercer

source: "The Authentic Ass-troturfers". www.wnd.com. August 13, 2009.

topic: Father, Rights, Government, Takeovers, Government Takeover

The fears are unanimous. ObamaCare is too expensive. It is a government takeover of our healthcare system. Services will be diminished. The patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated. It will not make healthcare more affordable. And it will bankrupt small businesses.

- Joe Kyrillos

topic: Doctors, Government, Obamacare, Takeovers, Government Takeover

Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like.

- Geoff Davis

topic: America, Government, Looks, Takeovers, Government Takeover

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

- Al Franken

source: "Net Neutrality Is Under Attack... Again" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

topic: Government, Neutrality, Republican, Government Takeover, Net Neutrality

Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a "patients’ rights" label on legislation that simply leads us closer to a complete government takeover of medicine.

- Ron Paul

source: "Bill Of Rights . . . Or Federal Takeover Of Medicine?". www.heartland.org. August 1, 2001.

topic: Rights, Government, Medicine, Socialized Medicine, Government Takeover

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

- Paul Ryan

topic: Thinking, Government, People, Takeovers, Government Takeover

I voted to repeal the government takeover of health care that raises costs, increases taxes, spends trillions of dollars that we don't have, cuts Medicare by $500 billion, and destroys jobs.

- Robert Hurt

topic: Jobs, Cutting, Government, Takeovers, Government Takeover