We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

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.

Obsessions turn people off.

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

Your language looks like a treasure map, ' she said, 'if you forget all the rest of the letters and focus in on the x, it looks as if you could find out where the treasure is.

It will soon make sense with some reasonable research and reading...ti's all in there, somewhere... find it!!

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

I guess when your heart gets broken, you sort of start to see the cracks in everything.

There's so much music out there, and so many different styles that I've been influenced by, so each album reflects some of that knowledge or influence that I've had.

No matter what you do, your grandmother thinks it's wonderful.

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.