Government will always grow larger, no matter the rhetoric. Until one day it doesn't. That would be a calamity.
A lot of the things we don't like about government are simply inherent. One can of course say "Well, lobbyists are horrible, we should get rid of them.", but it isn't going to happen (nor would it really fix much of anything). We can say we'd prefer smaller government, but it isn't going to happen. We can say we would like to end the corn ethanol program, but that too isn't going to happen. Iowa, caucuses etc.