Quotes About Policy

Do you realize that the current administration seems to care more about the health of illegal aliens in this country than it does about our veterans?

I believe safety is the first thing you need to guarantee as mayor," she said.47

Because, you know, evil demon librarians, not so much known for the honesty policy.

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels. [Reply to the government bureaucrat of one Asian country who told him that, reason why there were workers with shovels instead of modern tractors and earth movers at a worksite of a new canal, was that: You don't understand. This is a jobs program.]

The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the rule of the game and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

Inflation is taxation without representation.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promised a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not. Then it really is an impossible thing.

Lo que importa no es la inflación per se, sino la inflación no anticipada

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. … And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

The role of government just considered is to do something that the market cannot do for itself, namely, to determine, arbitrate, and enforce the rules of the game.

Inflation is taxation without legislation

In fiscal policy as in monetary policy, all political considerations aside, we simply do not know enough to be able to use deliberate changes in taxation or expenditures as a sensitive stabilizing mechanism.

Immigration has been [Donald] Trump's signature issue throughout his entire presidential campaign, and his supporters love him for it.

I love a reciprocal tax. Nobody can fight it, it's fair and it's something that we are working on very strongly.

The DACA situation is a very, very difficult thing for me because, I love these kids.

I love free trade. I love the concept of free trade. Everything about it is good. I went to the Wharton School of Finance. They say, Let's go free trade.

Welcome to Abortion Town!

The Government's supposed to be there for people when nobody else is, right? But it never works like that.

the public realized that an excess of paper currency creates no real wealth, only inflation.