We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

The line frames national flourishing as the product of personal character and civic virtue rather than state action. By urging rejection of “big government,” it echoes a libertarian-populist critique that centralized programs and bureaucracy displace individual responsibility, local initiative, and voluntary association. The appeal to “look inside ourselves” shifts the solution from policy to moral renewal: self-reliance, work ethic, community solidarity, and patriotism are implied as the “things that built this country.” The phrase “into what it was” also carries a note of decline, suggesting that contemporary America has strayed from founding-era or mid‑century ideals and can be restored through cultural and personal change more than legislative reform.