Quotes About Policy

My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.

Compassion comes from the heart, not the government.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.

Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.