Quotes About Policy

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

The government itself cannot create jobs. Jobs are created by business people and entrepreneurs.

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.