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We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

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

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

Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

We pledge to you that we will create jobs. End economic uncertainty and make America more competitive. We will cut Washington wasteful spending and reduce the size of government. And we will reform Congress and restore your trust in government.

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.

Have the government get out of the way.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.