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Famous Quotes

"Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub."
Grover Norquist on Government

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities."
Thomas Jefferson on Government
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
Winston Churchill on Government
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
Thomas Jefferson on Government
"Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
George Washington on Government
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one."
Thomas Paine on Government

"Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone."
"I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries."
"Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith."
"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."
"Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time."