The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time.
Peter Orszag

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
Henry Hazlitt

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
Rush Limbaugh

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Tony Benn

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.
Flann O'Brien

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.
Angela Merkel

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
William Westmoreland

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
Claude Pepper

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
Andy Rooney

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.
Dwayne Andreas

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.
Charley Reese

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?
Joe Wurzelbacher

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.
Tom Hayden

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
Clare Boothe Luce

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.
Elihu Root

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.
Rand Paul

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
Maureen Murphy

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
Bob Schaffer

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin P. Adams

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.
George E. Brown, Jr.