Quotes about Policy
Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.
— Ronald Reagan
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.
— Donald Trump
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.
— Thomas Paine
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.
— Barack Obama
Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.
— Shimon Peres
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