Quotes about Policy

Such sanguine declarations tend to lull authority asleep,—to encourage it rashly to engage in perilous adventures of untried policy,—to neglect those provisions, preparations, and precautions which distinguish benevolence from imbecility, and without which no man can answer for the salutary effect of any abstract plan of government or of freedom. For want of these, they have seen the medicine of the state corrupted into its poison.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.

I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Actually, Brexit is an incredibly important issue, but it's not the only issue. And to be a credible party of Government you need to have plans for everything, not just for the delivery of Brexit.

Every day, I talk to Democratic and Republican colleagues with lots of ideas about the work we should be doing.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states.