Lawrence Kudlow Quotes

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.

What is Maximum Governance, Minimum Government? It means government has no business to be in business.

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.

It should not be the government running the economy.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

The line between what government does and what a company does is getting blurred.

The government playing entrepreneur is not a good role for the government.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. […] Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. […] The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

Have the government get out of the way.

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

No centralized bureaucracy, or so-called "paternal government," yet invented on earth, has been anything but a failure, or is it like to be anything else

Less Government in Business and More Business in Government

The best thing that governments can do is get out of business. When governments interfere less, managers can do their jobs better.

The Republicans are the party that says that government doen't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

Government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

I'm not a huge believer that government provides a whole lot of solutions.