Michele Bachmann Quotes

Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.

The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.

I think the American people can change Washington. But I think that it is not going to change, because somebody from on high directs that change.

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner.

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not the creation of new problems.

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.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

We have revenue coming in. We can pay our interest payments. And then we can prioritize what government programs that have been given to the American people that are unsustainable promises that have been made by reckless politicians that can't possibly be sustained. We can determine which one of those if any we need to keep.

The Republican name used to be synonymous with limiting the size and scope of government, and we need to re-establish that reputation. We must work to eliminate government waste, make certain taxpayer dollars go to meaningful programs, and leave resources directly with the people.

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.

Far too many government spending programs have gone years, even decades, without being reauthorized, leaving the American people less able to effectively review, rethink, and possibly eliminate government programs.

It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.

We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

The American people want change, and they see in Donald Trump a leader who embodies the American spirit.