Quotes About Policy

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.

...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

I am not arguing that we should never use legal reform as a tactic. Instead, I argue that it should not be a goal.

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

The question is not whether to close the parks, but how to accomplish this goal.

Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

Detrás de la caja registradora hay un letrero que anuncia que si tu hamburguesa tarda más de quince minutos, no te la cobran. Hace dos días les mostré mi reloj de pulsera pasados dieciséis minutos y me dijeron que la norma sólo se aplica a las hamburguesas con queso.

Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

Its continued illegality was proof that lying and/or stupidity was a cornerstone of government policy.

There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.

The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation.

Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

War was neither a means in the hands of policy nor was it an end in itself. Instead it was regarded as an evil; albeit one that was sometimes made necessary by the imperfection of the world.

Nor should the basic elements of this program be imperiled by partisanship.