Quotes About Policy

They think democracy - I used to say "damn the democracy", because it's not a stable government.

Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.