Erik Prince Quotes

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with tax increases on the wealthy, because a tax increase doesn't reduce the size of government.

I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.

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

The problem is that the energy in the Republican Party today is not directed at how to make government work better. It is directed against government.

All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

Sometimes less is better with government.

Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way.

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