"But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government."
― James Q. Wilson
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Government
― James Q. Wilson
More From James Q. Wilson
- "Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims."
- "I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone’s health care."
More In Government
- "I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government."― Paul Wolfowitz
- "The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."― Franklin D. Roosevelt
- "To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall."― Jack Kemp