Mitch McConnell Quotes

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

We don't need more government, we just need the government we have to work smarter and more efficiently.

Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner.

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.

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.

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

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.

As we seek to improve the management of the federal government, we should keep in mind that the government is not a private corporation. What may make sense for a large corporation may not always make sense for the federal government. In our quest for efficiency, we must not lose sight of the reasons why we enacted certain federal programs in the first place.

There is no reason why government should not be as efficient as any good business.

The politician and the government expert receive their revenues, not from service voluntarily purchased on the market, but from a compulsory levy on the populace. These officials, therefore, wholly lack the pecuniary incentive to care about serving the public properly and competently.

Who's going to do a better job of spending your money? You or the government?

I come from a government in Indiana where we did get things done.

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.

Since 2001, I've done what every elected official should be doing in government right now. My staff and I took a look at the books, thought outside the box and proposed reforms.

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

No one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

It is the duty of those serving the people in public place to closely limit public expenditures to the actual needs of the Government economically administered.

Government ... simply has no bottom line.

The more responsibility you can move toward local government, the better of you're going to be … City governments do better than their State governments in terms of accountability.

Governments are not like a business. They don’t look like a business, work like a business, think like a business, and they don’t have a bottom line.

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.

Cost effectiveness and effectiveness are not always the same thing in government.

We have a moral duty to have an efficient government.

The only way to make government more efficient is to make it smaller and to make it more local.