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"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."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."

"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."

"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"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."

"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."

"Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun."

"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."
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