Political Quotes

On the recordMay 26, 2010
And if you step back a considerable distance and get way outside of Washington, D.C., one of the things that you can see if you look over a long period of time is that there's a big debate as to what the Federal Government should be doing--in fact, that is kind of the main political debate--and should the government be doing a whole lot of things or should it be doing a smaller, limited number of things. We have just heard over the previous 40 or 50 minutes from the Democrat Party, and they were very excited about all the things the government was doing. The government was involved in all of these handouts to different people and the different ways of trying to show compassion, and so they were very interested in seeing that the Federal Government was involved in a whole lot of different things. There's a different perspective on that, and that is that the Federal Government should be involved in a smaller number of things and that, in fact, the government should be limited, the Federal Government should be limited.
Said by
W. Todd Akin
Missouri

Editor's note · Context

The speaker discusses the role of the Federal Government in the economy and the debate over its size and involvement.

Share

More from W. Todd Akin

May 25, 2011

The question involves the Avondale shipyard-- which used to be Northrop Grumman, it is now a part of Huntington--and there are essentially three possibilities of what might happen to the shipyard. One possibility is that we leave the…

govinfo.gov
Jun 7, 2012

On rollcall No. 360 and 361, I was delayed and unable to vote. Had I been present I would have voted ``no'' on rollcall No. 360 and ``aye'' on rollcall No. 361. ____________________

govinfo.gov
Jul 10, 2012

On rollcall No. 455 I was delayed and unable to vote. Had I been present I would have voted ``nay.''

govinfo.gov
Jul 26, 2012

On rollcall Nos. 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, and 536, I was delayed and unable to vote. Had I been present I would have voted ``aye'' on rollcall No. 519, ``no'' on rollcall No. 520…

govinfo.gov

Other voices in this conversation