Quotes About Policy

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.

Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.

I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.

I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.

There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

It's wrong to criticize government without offering a possible alternative.

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Bitcoin might revolutionise more than money or economics. It could transform the role and nature of government

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

Words don't change children's lives. Real action by the government and equality would.

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.