Politics Quotes

"The role of government should be to protect liberty, not to redistribute wealth."

"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of misguided political work of the past."

"The worst thing the government can do is to try to be good."

"The problem with government is that it always uses a sledgehammer when a scalpel is needed."

"The role of government is to protect rights, not to provide them."

"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."

"Capitalism will eventually destroy itself through its own contradictions."

"Democracy is a political system for reaching decisions by a competitive struggle for power."

"Socialism cannot match capitalism's innovative capacity."

"Politics is the art of managing sentiment, not reason."

"The American dilemma is the conflict between professed ideals and practiced reality"

"Systems of oppression persist because they serve the interests of those in power"

"Every policy reflects a choice about whose interests matter most"

"Every economic system reflects choices about human dignity and rights"

"The market is not a perfect mechanism, but it is the best we have created."

"The cycles of history are determined less by great ideas than by the circulation of elites."

"Politics at its best is the art of creating shared visions and collective action."

"Politics should serve the common good, not the interests of power and privilege."

"Prices perform the coordination function in a free market that a planning board performs in a centrally planned economy."

"Monopoly is a result of government intervention, not a result of the free market."

"Fair weather liberals want to redistribute wealth when times are good but disappear when sacrifice is needed."

"Regulation of money should be by rules rather than by discretionary action of authorities."

"The role of government is to protect property rights and enforce contracts, nothing more and nothing less."

"We are all libertarians on some issues and conservatives on others."

"The real question is not whether government planning is needed but whether it will succeed."

"The welfare state is a way of replacing the giving of the heart with the giving of the coerced wallet."

"The tendency to substitute political power for market power is very strong."

"We should measure the success of government by how little it interferes in our lives."

"The greatest single failure of capitalism is not an economic failure but a political failure."

"Government cannot create wealth it can only redistribute it."