George Nethercutt Quotes

When you pass a law you don't solve the problem. You state the problem.

What one has created by regulation, one could address by regulation.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

No government at any level has all the answers.

None of my Governments seem to know what to do about them

Politicians can’t just point to problems. They need to propose solutions.

If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.

I'm a policy guy, believe it or not. I love policy. I love solving tough problems.

Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs.

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."

If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem.

From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government.

If the political will is there, we can solve anything.

However much a president wishes it, a national problem cannot be knocked out with a single punch. A president must work with the problem as much as against it, turn it into a solution if she can.

And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.

Canada was built from its very beginnings on the belief that public leadership in the economy and on social issues would be as effective and cheap as anything done by the private sector.

How can we decide matters of public policy when we cannot understand them?

Public policy must lead and not merely react.

The kind of problems we're facing now, no government can fix.

I have never been a believer that serious government problems are solved by reorganization or shifting around bureaucracy.

Are our problems moving faster than our ability to solve them?

Conservatives believe that some problems have no solution, that they can only be mitigated at best. Liberals believe that most every problem has a government solution.

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.