William Petty Quotes

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.

In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

Good government is good politics.

Politics is not an exact science.

Win and keep the confidence of your leader. Never refuse or quash schemes he puts forward: but ensure that they are put forward in the first instance privately to you. Always approve them, and after praise modify them insensibly causing the suggestions to come from him, until they are in accord with your own opinion. When you attain this point, hold him to it, keep a tight grip of his ideas, and push him forward as firmly as possible, but secretly so that no one but himself (and he not too clearly) is aware of your pressure.

Policy and politics are always mixed up.

Politics is economics in action.

There is something wrong with the way in which we make our decisions. The Government listen too much to the pollsters and the party managers. The trouble is that they are not even very good at politics, and they are entering too much into policy decisions. As a result, there is too much short-termism, too much reacting to events, and not enough shaping of events. We give the impression of being in office but not in power. Far too many important decisions are made for 36 hours' publicity.

Balanced budgets have a lot to do with National Defense.

I did not love politics. As a matter of fact, I hated politics. I loved governing which is … a different thing.

The shape and composition of the government is important. We haven't reached a point where politics and economics have been totally divorced from each other.

I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works.

Politics, I love. It's a noble profession.

I think the economics of this country is intricately linked to the politics of this country and the two cannot be separated.

The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other country, foreign policy is used for internal political struggle.

I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

You have three people in the White House that are in love with eugenics or whatever it is you would call it today.

People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.

I do think the president's best role is usually as the sort of initiator.

Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.

America deserves a real discussion about real policy.