Government Policy Quotes

• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Freedom, Thinking, People

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• Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

  William E. Gladstone

  Home, Government, Principles

  Speech, West Calder, Scotland, November 27, 1879.

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• Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Law Courts, Government, Libertarian Party

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• If you look at government policy generally, what government tries to do in all instances is to make sure that we take care of all elements that might relate to a particular issue.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Issues, Government, Trying

  Source: www.gov.za

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• I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies

  Henry Paulson

  Believe, Government, Roots

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• In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Thinking, Government, Mind

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Two, Evil

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.100, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Names, Government, People

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• The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.

  Alice Waters

  Government, Mcdonalds, Insane

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• If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Hands, Nsa

  "President Obama's speech on NSA surveillance reforms - full text". www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2014.

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• ... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of government policy so that devoting more resources to one use inevitably detracts from availability for another.

  William Vickrey

  Government, Availability, Analysis

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• People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.

  Arthur Laffer

  Government, People, Income

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• It is critical that the world captures every last bit of energy efficiency, if we are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep below dangerous rises in temperature. I am pleased that this important new study shows how information and communication technology can play an essential role in saving energy. Now we need more and effective government policies that reward such action and penalize delayed responses.

  Christiana Figueres

  Communication, Technology, Government

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• If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.

  Martin McGuinness

  Gun, Government, Doors

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• They have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi as minister of health, education, and welfare The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and the Muslim idea of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the disabled to their suffering. ... It's the will of Allah. These beliefs are nothing but abject fatalism, and they would devastate the social gains this nation has made if they were ever put into practice.

  Pat Robertson

  Karma, Country, Buddhist

  "The new world order". Book by Pat Robertson, 1991.

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• I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Government, Facts

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• I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Government, Europe, Unhappy

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• After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

  Mitch McConnell

  Jobs, Government, Leader

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• The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.

  Eric Schmidt

  Country, Government, America

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• The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

  Carly Fiorina

  Government, California, Leaving

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2010.

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• Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising the natural rate of unemployment.

  Paul Krugman

  Philosophy, Government, Political

  Paul Krugman, Robin Wells (2012). “CourseSmart E-Book for Macroeconomics: A PDF-style E-Book”, p.227, Palgrave Macmillan

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• It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able to operate without the need for assistance apart from social grants.

  Tony Benn

  Government, Needs, Coal

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• [E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Law, Long

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• To be patriotic is to be able to question government policy in times of crisis. To be patriotic is to stand up for the Bill of Rights and the Constitution in times of uncertainty and insecurity. To be patriotic is to speak up against the powerful in defense of the weak and the voiceless. To be patriotic is to be willing to pay the price to preserve our freedoms, dignity, and rights. To be patriotic is to challenge the abuses of the PATRIOT Act.

  Sami Al-Arian

  Freedom, Powerful, Patriotic

  "Dr. Sami Al-Arian vs Big Brother's 'Ministry of Justice'" by Eileen Fleming, bigthink.com. 2017.

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