The progressives were the original big-government people.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2008] Reference

Fiscal conservatives rail against big-government spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here We Go Again—Maybe] Reference

Who made us big - spenders and big-government Republicans?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2008] Reference

But recall, President Clinton's major big-government initiative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer of Economic Discontent] Reference

He was clearly trying to sell Al Gore as big-government liberal.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: Gore and Bush Face Off in Their First Presidential Debate - October 3, 2000] Reference

It explains -- you ` re exactly right, his big-government ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2008] Reference

BEGALA: I think McCain is very much a big-government conservative.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2008] Reference

They don't want to go for his big-government plan, enough of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2009] Reference

Rather, it's filled with big-government wasteful spending projects.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2009] Reference

A high-spending big-government consensus has effectively been reached.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cutting to the chase] Reference

Not a big-government liberal; government alone can't solve our problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogging Obama's Presidential Announcement Speech] Reference

The big-government crowd is drawn to the compulsory nature of centralized authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tea Party Manifesto] Reference

Obama's former employer tries to wish away the Tea Party and save his big-government agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Bloat] Reference

But he shows what he is for by identifying what he is against, namely big-government liberalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gop's Three Amigos] Reference

The President will not do so with big-government solutions more appropriate for an earlier time.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Challenges To Invest In Americas New Markets] Reference

They also do not believe in compassionate conservatism which they call big-government conservatism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weekly Political Roundup] Reference

He is a true big-government liberal out of the same mold as the Clintons except for the abortion issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystery: Who's Behind Brutal Web Video Slamming Huckabee Over Paroled Rapist?] Reference

Half a million more adults with a vested interest in voting for big-government nanny-state socialist Labour.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The excesses of today's free-market absolutism are almost as bad as those of the big-government era they ended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evils Of Markets] Reference

I think what President Obama wanted was Republicans to vote for an extremely ideologically big-government plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mitt Romney on RomneyCare] Reference

Moreover, the administration's big-government policies most notably health-care reform are holding back job creation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time for Emergency Economic Reform] Reference

I want to elect Republicans who are going to reverse some of the terrible big-government programs that are coming on.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2009] Reference

A generation ago, voters turned against the Democrats for the excesses of their welfare-state, big-government thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Politics: Food Fight in the Big Tent] Reference

I couldn't find one scintilla of evidence that liberal ideas, or the big-government programs such thinking spawned, worked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love, War & Running For President] Reference

Though they may frequent a country club or even live in the East, these aren't big-government "" Rockefeller Republicans. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now, The Volvo Republicans] Reference

Ted Kennedy, who has always been the epitome of big-government, tax-and-spend liberalism, saying we should take away the cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2002] Reference

GLENN BECK, HOST (voice-over): Tonight, the fallout continues from the big-government rescue in the Freddie and Fannie fiasco.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2008] Reference

The "tea party" movement was zeroing in on him as representative of all that's wrong with big-government politics back in Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharron Angle Senate Campaign: How To Lose An 11-Point Lead In 7 Weeks] Reference

JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The solution, my friends, isn't a one-size-fits-all big-government takeover of health care.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2008] Reference

TOM DELAY (R-TX), MAJORITY LEADER: While everyone else got the memo that big-government, blame-America-first liberalism died with disco.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2003] Reference