Quotes About Policy

In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

Conservatism is the politics of reality

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

Politics is applied biology.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

Currency warfare is the most destructive form of economic warfare.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.