Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

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.

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.

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.

There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.

It's the Democrats whose position is that the only problem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for the king to spend.