Quotes about Policy

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

Some problems cannot be cured through legislation. But they must be attended to nonetheless. And here's the problem: The less the culture attends to these things, the more the government will attend to them and the less freedom there will be.

We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

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

We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.