Government Policy Quotes

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

Britain is no longer in the politics of the pendulum, but of the ratchet.

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

Post-traumatic stress, that's why the soldiers need marijuana, is for their mental health. It makes them feel better so that they don't have the horrors of war in their mind all the time. And the government won't allow them to have it, because it's illegal - federally. It's absurd.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics; they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But what you must never forget is that every one of those figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

The era of big government is over.

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because President Obama has now won the Nobel Peace Prize.

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.'

We never use the phrase population control. It has an implication of coercion.

Immigration policy should be set and enforced federally.

It is not in accordance with the genius of our Government or our country to pay pensions.

The disagreement among American political parties, with only a few exceptions, has been over the practical question of how to secure the agreed objective, while conciliating different interests, rather than over ultimate values or over what interest is paramount.

It is extremely difficult to rescind entitlements to which people think they are legally entitled. Taxes can easily go up and down. There isn’t the same political pressure.

Our government is printing money, and it's degrading the living standard of every person in America. It's the cause of frustration, anger, and confusion.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

After my undergraduate, I've written a thesis that was in the government department, but largely, it turned out almost an economic type of thesis. And I was very interested in that, and I wanted to go get a Ph.D. in Economics.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

The central government wants to increase the number of nuclear power plants but we believe nuclear plants have their inherent problems.

Government must start to look at mobile infrastructure as a critical national resource and not just a resource for tax dollars.