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Quotes About Policy

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.
~ Hassan Rouhani
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.
~ William Hague
The government means industry, if you know what I mean.
~ Jacque Fresco
The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.
~ Mary Robinson
I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
~ Bob Hawke
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.
~ Eisaku Sato
Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.
~ Bernie Sanders
America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.
~ Mitch McConnell
Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.
~ Eamon de Valera
What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.
~ Olusegun Obasanjo
There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.
~ Julia Gillard
The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.
~ Murray Rothbard
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.
~ Noam Chomsky
Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
~ Manmohan Singh
While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.
~ Ginny Brown-Waite
Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
~ John Bolton
The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.
~ Alistair Cooke
I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.
~ Laurent Fabius
Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.
~ Joe Biden
A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.
~ Gough Whitlam
Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.
~ Jean-Baptiste Say
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
~ Thomas Paine