Quotes About Policy

Temporary measures (as introduced by governments) are never temporary; they invariably become permanent.

Again, wars do not really end until the conditions that started them--a bellicose government, an aggressive leader, a national policy of brinksmanship--are eliminated. Otherwise, there remains a bellum interruptum , much like the so-called Peace of Nicias, when Athens and Sparta agreed to a time-out in 421 B.C., before going at each other with renewed and deadly fury in 415 B.C.

History indicates that wolf control is sometimes poor biology, often poor economics, and almost always poor public relations.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even if you are a Nobel Prize winning genius, we will not let you in.

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.

I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

We're going to start making things again in America. As part of our plan to bring back our jobs, we're going to lower our business tax from 35 percent to 15 tax, the biggest since Ronald Reagan.

Good regulation should be conducive to business and to customer protection.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.