Quotes about Policy

government; instead, they would draw their salaries from the private sector. As a result, their dirty work, if exposed, would be chalked up to corporate greed rather than to government policy.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

So if you're dealing with a nonperforming employee, particularly on issues related to work ethic, I suggest that you begin by asking three questions: Has this employee received a written job description? Have you published some sort of general, written policy that outlines requirements for practical work issues like starting time, lunch breaks, stopping times, making or receiving personal phone calls, etc.? Does this person understand how you like to receive reports?

This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.