Quotes about Policy
The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.
— John Adams
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
— Thomas Jefferson
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
— Bill Gates
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
— Ronald Reagan
Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.
— Ronald Reagan
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
— John Updike
Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
— Bill Gates
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
— Thomas Jefferson
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
— Ronald Reagan
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
— Bill Gates
I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
— George W. Bush
In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower