Nina Easton Quotes

The era of big government is over.

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 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.

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.

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.

In Washington, we've seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big government solutions under Speaker Pelosi's control.

'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.

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

One of the greatest falsehoods of American politics over the past several decades is that the Republican party is the party of fiscal responsibility.

People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

If you like big government, move to Massachusetts.

MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.

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

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

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

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.

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

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

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

To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.

Bill Clinton is the guy that said, "The era of Big Government is over." Whether or not he meant it or not, he said it.

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