Quotes about Policy

People don't start wars, governments do.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved. Love is people, is a person. A friend of ours, Hugh Bishop of Mirfield, says in one of his books: Love is not an emotion. It is a policy. Those words have often helped me when all my feelings were unlovely.

This election [2016], and I believe this, is our last chance to secure the border, stop illegal immigration and reform our laws to make your life better.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.