Gina Raimondo Quotes

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.'

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

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

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

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.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

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.

Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.

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

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

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

Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.

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

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not the creation of new problems.

I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

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.

If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.

Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

I got elected to run the government more efficiently, lower taxes.

The Republican name used to be synonymous with limiting the size and scope of government, and we need to re-establish that reputation. We must work to eliminate government waste, make certain taxpayer dollars go to meaningful programs, and leave resources directly with the people.

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.