Quotes About Government

More debt interest, higher taxes, a smaller GDP. That is the Liberal plan.

The only way to make government more efficient is to make it smaller and to make it more local.

While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.

One reason the Founding Fathers thought that states should have two senators was so that smaller states wouldn't get run over and could bring their interests to the attention of the Senate more broadly.

When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going to be about the presidential election. It will be about the smaller elections in aggregate that have a huge effect on people's lives.

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

As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.

Not only has Paul Ryan not died on any hill for a position he believes in to make government smaller, he hasn't even skinned his knee.

Our nation is not a fully representative democracy if we do not have a one-person, one-vote method of directly electing our president. It disproportionately tilts favor to smaller states with smaller populations.

Governments should be smaller. In fact, governments and countries in general are less important than we think they are. They take credit for processes they have nothing to do with.

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats.

I'm not a 'messiah' coming to change Washington. I don't come with a political background, so I think it's part of my responsibility to raise my hand and say 'Why?' Folks don't just want smaller government; they want an efficient small government.

I want a smaller government, yes, but I want a government that will be fair.

The Republicans cry for smaller government; however, it seems that at every turn, they work at interfering with the lives of Americans, and we can add food-choice to the list.

Life is hard enough without being worried about the smallest interaction with a public servant.

If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

When some states introduced mandatory smallpox vaccinations during the epidemic of 1898-1903, Americans resisted by the thousands. The ensuing battles produced medical conventions and case law that altered the balance between government authority and medical practice, in favor of federal control.

We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.

How about we let the states be innovative on Medicaid and do much better and smarter things?

We don't need more government, we just need the government we have to work smarter and more efficiently.