Quotes About 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.

I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels.

If you're looking for a metric that we have to measure, that we have to control, it's government in relation to the size of our economy.

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'

We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

What I've said about compromise, I hope to build a conservative majority so bipartisanship becomes Democrats joining Republicans to roll back the size of government, reduce the bureaucracy, and get America moving again.

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.

I'm a big defense hawk and a big fiscal conservative, but in this case, Pakistan continues to imprison the man who gave us Osama bin Laden and continue to have a major ideological bent within the middle echelons of their government that, I think, should cause all of us pause given the size and nature of their nuclear arsenal.

I don't really care if you're a Republican or Democrat or you want to fight about the size of government. How about a government that just works? Put your tax dollar in and get a return out the other end.

Our battle over the size of the state overlooks a problem that is just as important and that may be easier to muster the collective will to resolve: how effective government is, regardless of its scale.

The Israeli people are skeptical about the chances of a long-term peace, but if they saw it, they'd grab it. Any Israeli government that wants to be reelected should be interested in a lasting peace.

In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

I wish that I could tell you that I have a season ski pass, but I have had to give that up since I've been in the Senate.

My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.

Today, we should look for people with great organizational skills to run a government - not just leaders, who are good with people.

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

We fought against British not because of the color of their skin but also because of the exploitative character of their government.

Most of us in the media are, by and large, sentimental about our national identity, but comfortable enough in our skins as Indians, to be deeply self-critical. The problem arises when loyalty to India gets mixed up with loyalty to the government of the day.