Quotes About Policy

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first.

While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

Government has the power to help improve well-being

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

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

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

Congress didn't vote on the bills, they just wave at them as they go by.

Prudence, policy and a true Christian spirit will lead us to look with compassion upon their errors without insulting them. While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious of violating the rights of conscience in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men and to him only, in this case, they are answerable.16 When

Rule 1: Be Consistent The first form of reinforcement is consistency of message. Every policy, procedure, and list of priorities sends a message, but if you aren't careful, your messages will be conflicting ones.

This same kind of overreaction occurs when an ending is viewed as symbolic of some larger loss. The minor layoff in a company that has never had layoffs before is an example. It isn't the loss of the particular individuals—it's the loss of the safety people felt from the no-layoff policy.

They did retain the prohibition on the African slave trade, not from any opposition to slavery but simply as sound business policy. The South no longer needed it, and introduction of new slaves from abroad served only to act on supply and demand by reducing the value of those already there.

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.