Steve Forbes Government Quotations

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

Tax-cutter John F. Kennedy was right: A rising tide does indeed lift all boats. From 2005 to 2015 the flat tax would generate $56 billion more in net government income tax revenue than the current tax code, according to Fiscal Associates, whose forecasts are based on the method, in increasing use today, of dynamic analysis.