Ronald Reagan Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

A government role in our society should be inherently suspect …. There is something inherently coercive in the nature of government.

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.

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

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.

The government is already into our lives a whole lot more than they should be. If I were president, I'd roll everything back. Everything!

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big 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.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

Attention shouldn't be on finding ways to build a better government; we should be looking at how to get government out of our lives.

Can government really be active and, at the same time, limited? History suggests otherwise.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

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

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.