Quotes About Policy

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

The government is concerned about the population explosion, and the population is concerned about the government explosion.

'Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

We shall be Canadians first, foremost, and always, and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.

Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

To govern is to choose.

China has no income tax, no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.

In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people, with their wisdom and unwisdom.

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn't go up, it went down.

It is inconceivable that releasing an illegal immigrant that could cause a tuberculosis pandemic here in the U.S. would ever be considered as a possible option.

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

If Nick Clegg hadn't been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn't have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn't have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn't have had the mistakes we've seen in economic policy.

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

I'm going to work with the Senate and the House to make sure we have a bill that lowers tuition for all Floridians.