Marco Rubio Quotes

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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.

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

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.

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.

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

There was a time that you could say the least government was the best—but not in the nation's most populous state.

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.

It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.

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

It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.

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.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

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.

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.

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 like big government, move to Massachusetts.

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

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

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

There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.

I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.