Quotes About Policy

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

Finally, despite a policy of de-escalation, there will inevitably be situations where state forces do need to escalate. When that happens, we again stress that it must be over fast. To return to Martin van Creveld's analogy, an adult can get away with giving a kid one good whack in public. He cannot administer a prolonged beating. Once the escalation terminates, state forces must make every effort to demonstrate that de-escalation remains their policy.

Turn him to any cause of policy,The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks,The air, a charter'd libertine, is still.

What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?

schools and churches, and that means fixing the inner cities, and that's impossible unless we fix crime. There's no fulcrum on which to rest a policy lever. People of all ages sense that something huge will have to sweep across America before the gloom can be lifted—but that's an awareness we suppress. As a nation, we're in deep denial.

there is no point in being either for or against "the free market" as such. The key question is: When is a market free?

The key architects of the nation's economic policy in the Clinton era (Greenspan, Rubin, and Summers) allowed the build-up of forces that would eventually blow the housing and banking industries sky-high. These forces were then multiplied by the reckless fiscal policy of the Bush Administration that enlarged the size of the national debt and set the stage for an economic train wreck.

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

I would argue yes. In fact, I would question the inverse. Can men of privilege...who do not feel the impact of policies on forests, children or their ability to breastfeed children...actually have the compassion to make policy that is reflection of the interests of others. At this point, I think not.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best.

if Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.