Quotes About Policy

We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family.

Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.

Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.

Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?

The only way to restore fiscal sanity is to either increase revenue or restrain entitlement spending.

In 2012, when Ryan spoke those words, federal debt stood at $16 trillion. By 2018 the debt was more than $21 trillion—and climbing, largely because of the spending increases and tax cuts passed by Republicans like Ryan. In 2017 Republicans in Congress approved, on a party-line vote, a tax bill that is projected to add $1.9 trillion to the debt.

This space station [Yang Liwei] was little more than a giant Orbital Denial Station. If those charges were to detonate, the debris...any future space launch would be grounded for years. It was a Scorched Space policy. If we can't have it, neither can anyone else.

Annie, everybody has a policy. In this world you have to have a policy. Now, my policy is I don't treat colored people.

I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.

Oh, wonderful, a president who hates immigrants.

An overall cultural embrace of a love ethic would mean that we would all oppose much of the public policy conservatives condone and support.

Rather than trying to control or confiscate guns, it might be smarter to offer free, public gun-safety courses. In countries like Switzerland, every man within a certain age range is required to possess a gun and to know how to use it, and Switzerland has one of the lowest gun homicide rates in the world.

I believe the logical approach would be to have each governmental agency and department trim its budget by 10 percent — with no exceptions. In each subsequent year, another 10 percent decrease would be required and would continue as long as necessary to bring the budget back into balance.

government that continues to tax the rich until there are no more rich, and then begins to tax everyone else without ever curbing its growth or its appetite for money. Eventually it destroys itself.

government-controlled programs continue to grow until they destroy themselves.

Rising prices allow Uncle Sam to pay off his debts with dollars that have been cheapened by inflation. Completely eradicating inflation runs against the economic self-interest of any government that regularly borrows money.

In the last 20 years the "profitable reinvestment" theory has been gaining ground. The better the past record of growth, the readier investors and speculators have become to accept a low-pay-out policy. So much is this true that in many cases of growth favorites the dividend rate—or even the absence of any dividend—has seemed to have virtually no effect on the market price.

You never, ever, tell others of your crimes, not unless they are so big as to be incapable of concealment, and then you describe them as policy or statecraft.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

In relation to any political doctrine there are two questions to be asked: (1) Are its theoretical tenets true? (2) Is its practical policy likely to increase human happiness? For my part, I think the theoretical tenets of Communism are false, and I think its practical maxims are such as to produce an immeasurable increase of human misery.

The merits of democracy are negative: it does not insure good government, but it prevents certain evils.