Quotes About Policy

You can tell a lot about a country which refers to the Royal Mint and the National Debt.

This point deserves repetition because it is so critical: The most cost-effective way to reduce CO2 emissions is to reduce the use of coal first and most sharply.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.

Out of the range of practical politics.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

It is the Forgotten Man who is threatened by every extension of the paternal theory of government. It

There is no injunction, no "ought" in political economy at all. It

It is lawful to love our estate, life, liberty; but beware of sinful policy to save them. It is no wisdom to shuffle with God, by denying his truth, or shifting off our duty to keep correspondence with men.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, or the crops to grow, but it can, by pursuing a meddlesome policy, attempting to change economic conditions, and frightening the investment of capital, prevent a prosperity and a revival of business which might otherwise have taken place.

I am not in favor of having government do anything that private citizens can do as good or better

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold

The bureaucracy, once noted for its efficiency and its adherence to the policy of merit-based promotion, became infused with nepotism, and the buying and selling of offices was a common practice.

Never call your office while you're on vacation. That's always been one of my hard and fast rules.

Justice William 0. Douglas once told President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Any government bureau more than ten years old should be abolished, because after that it becomes more concerned with its image than with its mission.

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