Ronald Reagan Quotes

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

No one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.

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.

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.

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.

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

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.

Government is merely a means to an end.

The question of our time is rapidly becoming can government get things done?

The more the government plans fail, the more the planners plan.

Every bad thing that happens has a ready-made solution in the form of a new government program, tax or regulation.

Government should do a few things, and do them right

Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.

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.

I believe you can divide the people in to two basic groups, those who believe government is a necessary good and those who believe it is a necessary evil, those who want government to take care of them, those who want government to leave them alone.

The great allure of government programs in general for many people is that these programs allow decisions to be made without having to worry about the constraints of prices, which confront people at every turn in a free market.

The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

Information upon points of practical politics.

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