I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.

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.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

Taxes are the killing fields of Democrats.

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

Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.

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.