As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.
Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.
You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect to get that money back. We expect that our Social Security is real. So, we have to fix Social Security.
Far too many government spending programs have gone years, even decades, without being reauthorized, leaving the American people less able to effectively review, rethink, and possibly eliminate government programs.
Top-down government programs threaten to limit the freedom and opportunity that made this country great.
Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country.
The fact that we have one out of four people in this state on Medicaid is unsustainable; it's unaffordable, and we need to create jobs in this state, not more government programs to cover people.
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.
When government programs aren't working, those on the Left tend to support more funding, while those on the Right want to scrap them altogether. It is better to ask whether the problem is complexity and poor design. We can solve those problems - sometimes without spending a penny.
I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste.
The Obama economy has led to more women dependent on government programs including food stamps.
It is not my belief that we need greater government regulation of hedge funds with respect to the systemic risk they create.
The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.
What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the Internet? Well, it certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation.
The Democratic plan in the 'Affordable Care Act' has, I would say, more government support, more government regulation around trying to protect the finances of individuals, trying to protect people who had pre-existing conditions, making sure that they could actually be in an insurance market and not set off to the side.
I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business.
I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
