Political Quotes

“Madam President, Mark Steyn is one of the most gifted writers of our time. His trenchant analysis appears regularly in National Review. Steyn writes with biting humor and personal experience with government censorship and has chronicled the concomitant growth in government power and loss of freedom in Europe and North America. In the March 5, 2012, issue of National Review he warns that America, which he calls the ``last religious Nation in the Western world,'' is in danger of going the way of European nations in replacing faith and family with the all powerful national government as the source of everything we need. He calls his piece ``The Church of Big Government.'' It reminds me of Barry Goldwater's warning that ``a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government that is big enough to take away everything you have.'' Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that this article be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From the National Review, Mar. 5, 2012] The Church of Big Government Leviathan is nibbling your religious freedom away (By Mark Steyn) Discussing the constitutionality of Obamacare's ``preventive health'' measures on MSNBC, Melinda Henneberger of the Washington Post told Chris Matthews that she reasons thus with her liberal friends: ``Maybe the Founders were wrong to guarantee free exercise of religion in the First Amendment, but they did.'' Maybe.…”