Tony Campolo Quotes

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.

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.

The Republican name used to be synonymous with limiting the size and scope of government, and we need to re-establish that reputation. We must work to eliminate government waste, make certain taxpayer dollars go to meaningful programs, and leave resources directly with the people.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

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

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

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

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy 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.

We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

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.'

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

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 federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.

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

People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.