Quotes About Policy

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.

For government to give, it must first take away.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.

Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government's dead body, frankly. It just won't happen.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.