Carly Fiorina Quotes

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

The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.

I ... can sniff out a bureaucracy when I see it coming [in new legislation.]

Washington's a mess, but that's not stopping me from getting bills to help Montana signed into law by President Trump.

We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.

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.

Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this.

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

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

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

Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.

Common sense is not all that common in Washington DC.

When we consider that this government is charged with the external and mutual relations only of these states; that the states themselves have principal care of our persons, our property, and our reputation, constituting the great field of human concerns, we may well doubt whether our organization is not too complicated, too expensive; whether offices or officers have not been multiplied unnecessarily, and sometimes injuriously to the service they were meant to promote.

Getting the U. S. Government to do anything is like herding ducks with a broom.

If you call anything “big government”, Americans will be against it reflexively.

You know how in movies the new president comes in and promises to perform sweeping actions with a stroke of a pen? The Administrative Procedure Act is designed to thwart this sort of maneuver.

Under the Trump presidency we have a unique opportunity to actually roll back regulations, make the economy work, and more importantly make sure that the swamp does not consume Washington, D.C.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.

As much as the Congress is criticized - and a lot of it is well deserved - the fact is there are many quiet victories if you keep your head down and know how to maneuver in the process and get things done.

As members of Congress, we have to pursue the Congressional Review Act legislation as soon as possible.

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.