Quotes About Policy

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.

Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

If there's labour shortages, we issue work permits. It's as simple as that.

If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks?

Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."

What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.

We're continuing to work to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands.

I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels.

Fiscal policy, monetary policy, they need to work together to try and raise the level of growth.

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.

Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.

The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.