Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that…

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

— Rand Paul

We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce…

— Grover Norquist

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and,…

— Ken Buck

Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed…

— Andrew Sullivan

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show…

— Brian Baird

Our Founders thought politicians should be accountable when it comes to citizens' right to life, liberty and the pursuit of heart surgery.

— Scott Gottlieb

A major part of living in a representative form of government is giving citizens the right to choose and be treated equally.

— Nina Turner

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

— Grover Cleveland

I think U.S. citizens are trained at a young age to fully inhale the system, the rhetoric and ideologies surrounding democracy, capitalism, religion, family…

— Alix Olson

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions

— Roy Barnes

I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the capacity and…

— Thomas Pogge

And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadnt taken every possible step for prevention…

— David Blunkett

“It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We've changed the way we think of ourselves as citizens. We don't…

— David Foster Wallace

I think that the citizens of Montana are looking for citizen representatives that are willing to place character, common sense, and conservative values before…

— Matt Rosendale

It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.

— Paul Ryan