Matt Taibbi Quotes

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

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.

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

I don’t want to kill the government. I just want to shrink it down to a small enough size that I can flush it down the toilet.

Paul Ryan says he's for smaller government, and he's funded every big government idea that there is.

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.

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

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

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.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

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.

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

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.

I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.

A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.

No one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

I don’t want to eliminate government. I just want to shrink it down to the size that you can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the tub.

All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.

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

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.