Quotes About Reform

We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.

The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

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.

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.

An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

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