P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.

I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.

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.

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

I don’t want to eliminate government. I just want to shrink it down to the size that you can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the tub.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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

Paul Ryan says he's for smaller government, and he's funded every big government idea that there is.

I will support vigorously whoever commits to reduce the size of government the most.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited 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.'

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

One could argue the GOP made no progress on limiting government in their four years of total control from 2002 to 2006. If anything, government expanded like never before.

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

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

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.