Quotes About Policy

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

I really didn't want to leave the show, but I got a chance to do a movie, which meant I would have had to miss two shows, and at the time Lorne had a policy where you can't miss shows, so I left.

I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.

I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear.

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

We need to make sure that our policymakers and politicians realize that we are the future of the country, not only by words. We should ask them to invest the right resources for every school, every hospital and every community.

I'm a big proponent of mandatory computer science education. I think the first step is educating policymakers that technology is changing the way that we live and work, and it's happening so fast.

Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.

I worry policymakers are not putting enough attention on what we should be planning for 10 years down the road. In general, governments aren't necessarily that good at looking down the road when it is a difficult issue.

We know that when people are civically engaged, when they understand what their rights are, when they understand that in a democracy you can challenge governments, you can challenge policymakers, and you can... actually shape and form future policy, I think it changes the perception that a lot of young people have about where power is.

That really important freedom in my life, the freedom to marry, came about because of choices that were made by policymakers who had power over me and millions of others.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

Architecture is always political.

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

Believe it or not, we all share the same values in the Labour party, but there will always be differences of opinion on policy - that is in the nature of the broad-church political parties we have under our flawed first-past-the-post electoral system.

I'm a firm believer that if we could restore real parliamentary democracy, the best way to do that would be to get rid of political parties.

I don't like the idea of being chucked out of parliament, chucked out of the party, for basically doing the bleeding obvious: trying to stop an absolutely damaging policy, that a responsible political party should be opposing vigorously.