Government Downsizing Quotes

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

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

It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.

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

If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

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

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.

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

The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.

We need smarter, 21st-century budget guardrails that would gradually trim the size of Washington in order to spur private investment, create jobs, and boost the income of hard-working Americans on Main Street.

Basically, Trump's significant first moves have been twofold. To marginalize the media, and to start dismantling the federal government.

As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.

Once we realize that government doesn't work, we'll know that the only way to improve government is by reducing its size - by doing away with laws, by getting rid of programs, by making government spend and tax less, by reducing government as far as we can.