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My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.
Grover Norquist
I always thought Tinker bell was really cool. I'd like to be able to shrink down to a really small size and fly around to places, play tricks on people... you know, fairy-like stuff.
Georgina Reilly
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Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately need to cut spending and shrink government.
Matt Salmon
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But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.


James Q. Wilson
We are united around a simple goal, and that is keeping the government open while protecting our constituents from the harmful effects of Obamacare.
Tom Graves
Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.
Mitt Romney
Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
Barry Diller
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
Hank Johnson
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We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
Jennifer Granholm
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Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.
Grover Norquist
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With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.


Bill Dedman
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Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
William Weld
Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant way to get to that goal within those constraints?' I break it down in terms of a data funnel: 'Where in the funnel are we inefficient?' That analytical background really helps.
Ruchi Sanghvi
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People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.


Ann Landers
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When I was around 9 years old, I was watching TV one day. I was looking at this commercial, with a kid in the bathtub playing with a rubber ducky or something, and I said, 'Where do those kids come from? How come they get to be on TV? I could do that stuff.'
Kristy Swanson
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America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.
Rick Perry
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Our ultimate goal is that Iran never have a nuclear bomb.


Marcia Fudge
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.


Patrick Collison
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I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.


William Least Heat-Moon
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The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?
Tom Hunter