Quotes About Policy

Government does not create resources when it taxes people and prints money; it merely redistributes the wealth.

For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it.

No time back then or since has there been much discussion of the significance of Roosevelt's executive order on July 26, 1941 that froze all Japanese assets in the US. This occurred four months before Pearl Harbor. It essentially created an oil embargo on the Japanese. Such sanctions are a deeply flawed policy that we continue to use today, to our detriment.

We could have done with a lot less of the militarism of the 20th century. We'll have a lot less militarism as the 21st century progresses because there will be no money to pay for it.

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.

Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size

Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

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We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.

This administration is totally colorblind.

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

The Augustus of history and panegyric stands aloof and alone, with all the power and all the glory. But he did not win power and hold it by his own efforts alone: was the ostensible author and prime agent in the policy of regeneration merely perhaps carrying out the instructions of a concealed oligarchy or the general mandate of his adherents?