Quotes About Policy

There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.

My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.

Today, we should look for people with great organizational skills to run a government - not just leaders, who are good with people.

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection.

Politicians love change, but of details only.

But "if it's destroyed in the course of the normal policy and litigation is filed the next day, that's great, you know, because we've followed our own policy, and whatever there was that might have been of interest to somebody is gone and irretrievable." Two

The Forest Service is truly an extraordinary institution. A lot of people, seeing that word forest in the title, assume it has something to do with looking after trees. In fact, no—though that was the original plan.

The National Park Service actually has something of a tradition of making things extinct.

In fact, mostly what the Forest Service does is build roads.

Iowa, to be on the safe side, outlawed conversations in any language other than English in schools, at church, or even over the telephone. When people protested that they would have to give up church services in their own languages, Governor William L. Harding responded: "There is no use in anyone wasting his time praying in other languages than English. God is listening only to the English tongue.

If one attitude can be said to characterize America's regard for immigration over the past two hundred years it is the belief that while immigration was unquestionably a wise and prescient thing in the case of one's parents or grandparents, it really ought to stop now.

Goodness knows what the world is coming to when park rangers carry service revolvers.

Interestingly, in the United States no one has died of old age since 1951, at least not officially, for in that year old age was banished as a cause from death certificates. In Britain, it is still allowed, though not much used.

Despite its lavish spending, the United States has one of the highest rates of both infant and maternal death among industrialized nations," according to The New York Times.

The inescapable conclusion is that higher spending in America doesn't necessarily result in better medicine, just higher costs.

The tragedy for so many town councils is that they think they can quietly cut spending and no one will notice or care. The tragedy for the country may be that they are right. But

sixth president leaves you clueless? I will help you. He was John Quincy Adams, and he once said, 'Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy.

In essence, governments can say to each other, "If you want to do business with us, you'll have to take climate change seriously.

Our laws and regulations are so outdated. The phrase "government policy" doesn't exactly set people's hair on fire. But policies—everything from tax rules to environmental regulations—have a huge impact on how people and companies behave. We won't get to zero unless we get this right, and we're a long way from doing that. (I'm talking here about the United States, but this applies to many other countries too.)