Mick Mulvaney Quotes

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

Have the government get out of the way.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

I am a believer in smaller government, limited government, less regulation, less taxes, because I think to have more of those things, we suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit of this nation.

What is Maximum Governance, Minimum Government? It means government has no business to be in business.

The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.

It should not be the government running the economy.

Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they tell me to just get government out of the way and they'll create the jobs and grow on their own.

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.

It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.

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.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Washington politicians think that government can make better decisions than you and me. But we know better. We know it's smaller, less intrusive government that will lead to real economic prosperity. We know it's business-friendly policies, not more red tape, that will create real growth.

I'm a confirmed Libertarian. I believe that the principal difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats just want to grow our Imperial Federal Government a bit faster than the Republicans do.

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.