Quotes About Policy

The USHA manual warned that it was undesirable to have projects for white families "in areas now occupied for Negroes" and added: "The aim of the [local housing] authority should be the preservation rather than the disruption of community social structures which best fit the desires of the groups concerned.

A result of the government program, therefore, was the increased population density that turned the African American neighborhoods into slums.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

The great ironist quite unironically boiled "American" down to liberal and reduced the Republicans to a lazy betrayal and a policy of drift that allowed too many of the policies put in place during the war to endure and the problems that arose in the wake of war to fester.

the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, a liberal immigration bill, some seventy different education bills—they're all passed during the 1960s by President Lyndon Johnson.

Why political power? Because political power shapes all of our lives. It shapes your life in little ways that you might not even think about.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

Politics is not evil; politics is the human race's most magnificent achievement.

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits;

What I fear most are affirmative actions of sober and well- intentioned men, granting to government powers to do something that appears to need doing.

Many of our Government officials drop amphetamine pep pills at a fantastic rate, especially those who have to jet around the world for conferences every week. They think they're using it only to keep alert, but many of them really have the habit. The American people should seriously consider the extent to which our entire international policy is shaped by people who are chronic users of a drug known to produce paranoia and irrational hostility.

Grand strategy is about marrying ends to means, about doing what you can, consistent with the nation's capabilities and resources.

In the interest of thinking tragically in order to avoid tragedy, policy makers need to worry about how not to provoke more anarchy than the world has already seen.

Simply put, there are actions of state that are the right things to do, even if they cannot be defined in terms of conventional morality.

simply because a nation is a democracy does not mean that its foreign policy will necessarily turn out to be better or more enlightened than that of a dictatorship.

Realism is alien to the American tradition

Our contemporary public debate recognizes this problem but assumes it is largely a "schools problem." On the contrary, we have seen that most of the challenges facing poor kids are not caused by schools.

the more fundamental problem with the big government explanation is that by most measures (all spending, or spending on the welfare state in real per capita terms, or spending as a fraction of GDP; number of government employees) the size of government lagged behind the I-we-I curve by several decades. Federal government spending and the number of employees rose steadily in tandem with the I-we-I curve from 1900 to 1970 and kept rising until they leveled off after the 1980s.

Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

Finn had seen in the people he'd once contended with, and sometimes even among his own colleagues - a policy in which killing was the first option rather than the last, because lives counted for nothing against the security of guaranteed silence.

That was standard Keynesian practice, a kind of pump-priming used by governments ever since the third New Deal of 1938, as Diane told them now, with World War II itself an even bigger example.

lawmakers are often lawyers themselves, notoriously bereft of ideas.

because economics was above all a system of quantified ethics and political power that depended on measurement.

So if you combined this thing with carbon taxes, you would get taxed if you burn carbon, but paid if you sequester carbon.