Quotes about Policy
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
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
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Influence is not government.
— George Washington
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.
— Donald Trump