Michael J. Knowles Quotes

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.

The Reagan years showed us that expanding economic freedom should be the North Star - the guiding light - of U.S. policy, because it is the best way to achieve sustained and broad-based prosperity for all.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

If we're talking about big-tent thinking in the Republican Party, I think we're all going to unite under a consistent economic theory. That's where our unity is, and that's what unites us.

Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.

I didn't become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country... I want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.

I'm a pro-growth, small-government conservative with a background in free enterprise.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.

When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

The era of big government is over.

Outside of Washington, D.C., most Americans aren't concerned with doing things 'big.' They're looking for less government spending, lower taxes, and good jobs.

I am a Reagan Republican: I believe in Free Market Capitalism; I believe in economic growth.

The Tea Party movement's economic agenda is a matter of emphasis, not exclusion. This is not a single-issue group.

Geoffrey Howe's Budget of 1981 is remembered for transforming the economy and delivering economic freedoms to families and businesses.

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.