Jacob G. Hornberger Quotes

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

Once created, federal programs are nearly impossible to eliminate.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.

Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.

If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

The Social Security System is the one great social policy achievement of the twentieth century.

The illegitimacy rate is going up every year. If you expect a government program to change that, you know more about government programs than I do.

When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.

I prefer to work at the policy level, on trying to fix flawed government policies.

Unfortunately, Bruce Rauner is more committed to playing politics than fighting for Illinois women and families.

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

It's important to discuss the issues that we have in our country.

Hillary Clinton's time in the Senate indicates she is happier being a policy workhorse than a show horse.

I have worked in the federal government and saw the debilitating effects of our antiquated civil service system on morale and results.

I have been a policymaker proven in tackling some very complex social issues on the municipal level here in Boston.

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.

The stuff that I propose are things that I'm ready to govern with. They're not tools to get elected. They are programs and plans to do when you get elected.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue over stuff that's not important, like gay marriage or the war in Iraq or illegal immigration... When I run - if I run - we're going to talk about real issues like improving our schools, cleaning up our neighborhoods of drugs and crime and making Alabama a better place for all people.

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.”

Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.