Paul Broun Quotes

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

We need a president willing to embrace the idea that Washington is not the answer to all, or even most, of our problems, regardless of who is in charge.

I'm not a 'messiah' coming to change Washington. I don't come with a political background, so I think it's part of my responsibility to raise my hand and say 'Why?' Folks don't just want smaller government; they want an efficient small government.

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

Jolt a country’s pride and even the reformers will support the nation

The only way to make government more efficient is to make it smaller and to make it more local.

That is when the Left is going to love America - when it is not America anymore.

The younger generation has become very nationalistic, self-confident. Increasingly, they do not see the Congress as their party.

Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.

There are things that should be allocated to states' rights - that's Gryffindor - and certain things allocated to the federal government, which is Slytherin.

'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia.

We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works.

The states have never had a voice when it comes to immigration or population policy. I think that needs to change.

Everybody since the '60s has been saying the nation is a fiction - the nation is an imaginary unity - but people didn't connect the dots and say all human endeavours sprang from the same principle.

I do believe that power needs to be returned to the states. I think that we've got way too much power in Washington. This is where I'm focused: way too much power in Washington.

I've spent my whole life fighting for leftwing causes, so I can tell you, no one is more surprised than me to be standing as candidate for Nigel Farage's Brexit party.

Let's be clear: a nationalist is not a patriot.

I don't need a certificate of my patriotism from those in the establishment.

I honestly believe that we are Arizonans and Americans first, not merely advocates for our respective political parties.

The U.S. has always understood itself to be united around political principles and not around culture, whereas the nations of Europe have a much more traditional conception of nationhood that is connected to romanticism, which thinks of religion and culture as ingredients of nationhood.

Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions.

The BJP doesn't believe in vote-bank politics. We believe India is above everything.

What can we do to put more Colorado in Washington and less Washington in Colorado?

The new conservative movement has to take on Trump's sense of boldness.