Dianne Feinstein Quotes

If you like big government, move to Massachusetts.

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.

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

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.

Attention shouldn't be on finding ways to build a better government; we should be looking at how to get government out of our lives.

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.

The question today is not whether the government is too small or too small, but whether or not it works

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

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.

The era of big government is over.

The issue isn't more or less government. It's dumb vs. smart government.

If you call anything “big government”, Americans will be against it reflexively.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

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

"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.

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

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

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.

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.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.'

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.