Quotes About Policy

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both

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

I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.

I think it's a federal crime parking meters won't accept pennies. Yeah, government, we know pennies suck. But you made them! You have to accept them! Parking meters are literally one of the three things anyone uses coins for and you decide you don't want to deal with them?

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill to end the bailouts cut spending and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.

Architecture is politics.

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

But on the political front, the Golden Straitjacket narrows the political and economic policy choices of those in power to relatively tight parameters. . . .