Quotes About Policy

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.

Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

The Government's business is in sound condition.

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

The business of government is justice.

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.