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Quotes About Policy

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
~ Will Rogers
The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.
~ Arthur Laffer
Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government.
~ Bill de Blasio
Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.
~ Marco Rubio
It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.
~ George Meany
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
~ Robert Heilbroner
Government planning always involves compulsion.
~ Henry Hazlitt
Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.
~ Lawrence Kudlow
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
~ Sallust
From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.
~ Stephane Hessel
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.
~ Thomas Jefferson
No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments.
~ Angela Merkel
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
~ Carroll Quigley
I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do.
~ Theresa May
While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.
~ Noam Chomsky
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
~ Bill Gates
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
~ Ronald Reagan
Governments institutionalize something for nothing.
~ James Cook
Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.
~ Mitt Romney
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
~ Maynard James Keenan
It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.
~ Thomas Jefferson
From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.
~ Jim Doyle
Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.
~ Ronald Reagan