Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

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.

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 comes down to the simple idea that government has grown substantially under Barack Obama, and government has been a failure in American's lives, and Hillary Clinton wants to grow government even further. I think Donald Trump wants to restrain government and shrink government.

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

They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government... the only effective cure is to reduce the scope of government - get government out of the business.

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

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

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

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.

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.

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big 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 am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.

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

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.

A government role in our society should be inherently suspect …. There is something inherently coercive in the nature of government.

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