Government Action Quotes

I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not.

Politics is the art of the possible.

Politics is who gets what, when, how.

I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

I never get involved in policy. Never.

The present Administration had no alternative but to accept the war initiated by South Carolina or the Southern Confederacy. The North will sustain the Administration almost to a man, and it ought to sustain it at all hazards.

A question like the present should he disposed of without undue delay. But a State cannot he expected to move with the celerity of a private business man; it is enough if it proceeds, in the language of the English Chancery, with all deliberate speed.

No government prospers by saying, 'I don't need to do anything. Just by being there, we have made the country thrive.'

Had it not been for the groundswell of support by the people of India, we would not have seen such a huge exercise of demonetisation bounce off without a single riot or a single law and order issue.

Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary. For this reason all those who wish to stop the drift toward increasing government control should concentrate their effort on monetary policy.

The Blue and White government, led by me, will assemble the strongest security cabinet against terrorism and restore deterrence.

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

Americans want the building to continue. They expect and deserve a government that will allow that to happen.

President Ted Cruz is going to send the feds to his house, take him out and put him on a plane.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government shall do everything and the idea that government shall do nothing.

We have responsibility that when somebody hurts, government has got to move.

Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?

My experience of American politics is that people raise issues, and they get addressed in an effective but imperfect way. But that's sort of the American system: Mind the problem and worry it, and then we attack it with overwhelming power and put it away - and that's the end of that problem.

To me, politics is about the future.

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

President Trump is doing what he can to act decisively. And if there's one thing most people have in mind in distinguishing the business world from the political world is that the CEO of a business can act decisively.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

The Queen returns these communications to Sir James Graham, which are of a very unpleasant nature. The Queen trusts that measures of the greatest severity will be taken, as well to suppress the revolutionary spirit as to bring the culprits to immediate trial and punishment. The Queen thinks this of the greatest importance with respect to the effect it may have in Ireland, likewise as proving that the Government is willing to show great forbearance, and to trust to the good sense of the people; but that if outrages are committed and it is called upon to act, it is not to be trifled with, but will visit wrong-doers with the utmost severity.