Ron DeSantis Quotes

Have the government get out of the way.

Less Government in Business and More Business in Government

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

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.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

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

The era of big government is over.

Southern conservatives care about government's moral stance but don't mind when it spends freely on behalf of their constituents. Western conservatives, by contrast, are soft-libertarians who want government out of people's way on principle.

I will support vigorously whoever commits to reduce the size of government the most.

Obama says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It's time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.

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.

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.

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.

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.

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.

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

I don’t want to eliminate government. I just want to shrink it down to the size that you can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the tub.

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.

I’d cut down government spending and I’d move to keep down the size of government, too.

I am a Reagan Republican: I believe in Free Market Capitalism; I believe in economic growth.

Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.