Steve Womack Quotes

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.

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.

The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

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

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

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.

We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.

I'm not a 'messiah' coming to change Washington. I don't come with a political background, so I think it's part of my responsibility to raise my hand and say 'Why?' Folks don't just want smaller government; they want an efficient small 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.

Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.

I got elected to run the government more efficiently, lower taxes.

People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.