Ron DeSantis Quotes

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.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.

We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government.

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

We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.

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.

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

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!

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.

This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

We should have a very limited federal government.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.

I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do.

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

The Republican party should have learned its lesson -- that it must be a conservative party.