My Ideal Citizen Is The Self-employed, Homeschooling,

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.

I Read Murder Mysteries. I Exercise 40 Minutes A Day. I Watch Videotapes While I Exercise. I Listen To Audiotapes When I Am In My Car. And I Try To Stay In Three Different Centuries.

I Want To Reduce The Size Of Government In Half As A Percentage Of Gnp - Gross National Product - Over The Next 25 Years. We Want To Reduce The Number Of People Depending On Government So There Is More Autonomy And More Free Citizens.

We Are Trying To Change The Tones In The State Capitals, And Turn Them Toward Bitter Nastiness And Partisanship.

I Know The Activists I Deal With, We Sort Of Try And Check Each Other To Make Sure That We Haven't Gone Native, That You Come To Washington Thinking It's A Cesspool, You Don't Want To End Up Thinking It's Really A Hot Tub And Getting Used To It. So That's Something One Has To Keep An Eye On All The Time.