Quotes About Policy

After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer. -Lester Maddox, governor of Georgia, arguing against the creation of a state consumer protection agency

I'm for the DREAM Act. It makes so much sense. Following the implementation of the DREAM Act, we'll have a case study we can point to where we can say that we provided a path to citizenship or legal involvement in the community for these young immigrants, and the sky didn't fall.

It should be obvious that banning begging or criminalising rough sleeping will do little to combat homelessness.

Look at trade and automation: two competing but slightly overlapping forces in the shrinking of the duration of jobs right now. We have to be able to talk honestly about how disrupted this world is going to be, and it is crazy to mislead people and say we're going to bring back all of the big factory jobs by creating a protectionist regime.

I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.

Slowly, the oil and gas sector will decrease in Norway. The question in Norway is about how fast it will decrease.

There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.

Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.

When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

Obamacare won't just bankrupt the country. It may bankrupt small businesses. It may bankrupt individuals.

We can have more jobs in small businesses if 'Obamacare' is eliminated.

We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.

A Brexit that works for Britain needs to work for small businesses and must ensure that our future trade deals don't just work for big business.

We are a small country and we have limited influence so we are neutral.

There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country.

In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.

If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.

I am a strong believer in small government that doesn't interfere in people's lives.

Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to the world's poorest can be achieved through policy changes by developed countries.

More debt interest, higher taxes, a smaller GDP. That is the Liberal plan.

The only way to make government more efficient is to make it smaller and to make it more local.

Europe's demography is developing towards a smaller working population in an ageing society.