Marlin Stutzman Quotes

I’d cut down government spending and I’d move to keep down the size of government, too.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

No one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.'

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

I don't believe we need any more taxes. We need to curtail the size of government. That seems to be a common thread among a majority of Americans out there that understand that we have to limit the size and scope of our government.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government.

I don’t want to kill the government. I just want to shrink it down to a small enough size that I can flush it down the toilet.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!

The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.