Asa Hutchinson Quotes

The left’s reflex is that if something is good then the government ought to provide it, and some conservatives are falling into the left’s political trap.

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing is amply rewarded by public attention.

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

Congress, rather than administrative agencies should fashion any policy that is not only of great economic importance but also one that has divided the faiths and loyalties of classes of people.

Politics generally doesn't mix with sports very well.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real?

Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.

Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.

MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

'2016' is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I'm not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public opinion.

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.

The attempt to treat politics as a branch of the profession of law [has] the disadvantage of refining issues to a point which no large society could comprehend.

The best legislator is the one who votes for all appropriations and against all taxes.