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Government Quotes
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These "government" quotes come largely from public testimony and accountability — speakers describing appearances before Congress and the basic expectation that citizens deserve clear answers from officials. For related themes, see Business quotes.
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- Drown
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and Democrats have no solutions for that. Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government.
- Government Spending
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you feel the government should leave you alone, you're a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you're a Democrat.
- Examining
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism.
- Coercive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020