November 7th, 2010
01:12 PM ET
12 years ago
Sound of Sunday: Most intriguing quotes
(CNN) - Here are some of the most quotable sound bites from the Sunday morning shows:
On what the election results mean:
"I do think that many voters still remember being disappointed by Republican majorities. And I think this has not been a huge embrace of the Republican Party or the Republican brand. But it clearly was a repudiation of an agenda that's not working and agenda in which the government has overreached dramatically in many, many areas, and in which the spending has been wildly excessive." - Republican Sen.-elect Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, CNN's "State of the Union."
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Here's a few great quotes......
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government"
--Thomas Jefferson--
"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session"
--Mark Twain (1866)
"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."
--Ronald Reagan-
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have."
--Thomas Jefferson--
Yes, these men knew exactly why it's best to guard against large government.