Quotes About Policy

Most Americans think that crime has gotten far too high. But in the ruminations about how the nation has reached this state and what might be done, too little attention has been given to one of the best-documented relationships in the study of crime: As a group, criminals are below average in intelligence.

It's a recurrent delusion that a change of government will make a difference.

Traditional Chinese administration was a well-oiled machine, which, barring a crisis, would keep ticking over. Initiatives were not required and rarely offered. State policies depended almost entirely on the dynamism of the throne.

Mozi believed that a policy could be called virtuous only if it enriched the poor, prevented pointless death, and contributed to public order.

It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older.

Anyone who does not want communism-and none of us do-should take socialism seriously.

Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state

Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

I have always been a House of Commons man.

National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

We shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.