Sean Duffy Quotes

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!

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.

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

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

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

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

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 will support vigorously whoever commits to reduce the size of government the most.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

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.

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

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

The Republicans are the party that says that government doen't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

I start with a concern about the growth of federal government. I start with a perspective concerned about the growth of that power, and containing it within the bounds of the Constitution.

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

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 best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

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.

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.

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.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.