Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.
We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed to represent the small government philosophy - limited spending, low taxes. Obviously, things have shifted.
You need to be intent on reducing size, scope, and influence of government.
No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions.
The federal government is way larger than it should be.
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
We should have a very limited federal government.
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.