George Osborne Quotes

Incredibly, whenever I have proposed the theory that half of government workers could be cut, current and former federal employees I know have all agreed.

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

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.

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.

Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.

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.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

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.

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

I have fought against excessive spending my entire career. And I got plans to reduce and eliminate unnecessary and wasteful spending and if there's anybody here who thinks there aren't agencies of government where spending can be cut and their budgets slashed they have not spent a lot of time in Washington.

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

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

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

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

The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.

I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste.

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

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 goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

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

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

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.

The question today is not whether the government is too small or too small, but whether or not it works

We are spending altogether too much money for government services which are neither practical nor necessary. In addition to this, we are attempting too many functions and we need a simplification of what the Federal government is giving the people.