Quotes about Policy

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size

Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

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.