Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague. And he is correct, Utah does indeed have a health care system that functions well, and functions well notwithstanding the fact it is not managed, it is not governed by the Federal Government. This is one of the great wonders of our Federal system. When we became a country about 200-plus years ago, we did so against a backdrop that is informative for us still today. We became a country, in part, because we discovered through trial and error, through our experience as British colonies, that local self-rule works best. People govern themselves much better than a large distant government can govern them. That is exactly why we became a country, because we learned that local self-rule works. We learned also that there is great danger to our individual liberty with any government, because whenever any government acts, whenever it does anything to regulate our lives, it does so at the expense of our individual liberty. We become less free by degrees whenever government does just about anything. But the risk to our liberty is especially great--it is at its highest--when the acting government is a large one, when it is a national government.…”