Thomas Jefferson Quotes

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Every amendment which I am convinced will have the tendency to lesson the danger of civil liberty by the central government will receive my sincere approbation.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

Of course we should have only the government we need. But we must insist on all the government we need.

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

It's our duty as leaders in Washington to keep the government running.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.

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

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 government is already into our lives a whole lot more than they should be. If I were president, I'd roll everything back. Everything!

Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it.

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.

It's businesses versus big government. We don't need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that's exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver.

I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.

I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

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

The persistence of public officials varies inversely with the importance of the matter on which they are persisting