Quotes About Policy

Economically the perspectives of the Constituent Assembly were entirely liberal: its policy for the peasantry was the enclosure of common lands and the encouragement of rural entrepreneurs, for the working-class, the banning of trade unions, for the small crafts, the abolition of guilds and corporations.

One historian has described the federal government's 1950s highway-building binge as a case study in "interstate socialism"—

Dropping a nuclear weapon was never a good idea.

Americans not only smoke more marijuana but also imprison more people for marijuana than any other western industrialized nation.

the Sources of Innovation: The Case of Scientific Instruments. Research Policy 23, no. 4: 459-469.

national competitive advantage

threatened to bore them. That policy did not make for an active social life.

So the much criticized food subsidy and employment guarantee for the poor and the unemployed cost about 1.14 per cent of GDP, whereas the cost of subsidizing electricity, fuel and fertilizers for the relatively better off is minimally 2.63 per cent, more than twice what is allocated to feed the poor and provide employment to the unemployed.

Effective elementary education has in practice ceased to be free in substantial parts of the country, which of course is a violation of a basic right.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

The big question about the American depression is not whether war with Germany and Japan ended it. It is why the Depression lasted until that war. From 1929 to 1940, from Hoover to Roosevelt, government intervention helped to make the Depression Great.

Coolidge believed higher taxes were wrong because they took away from men money that was their property; he believed lower rates were good precisely because they encouraged enterprise, but also because they brought less money. Low rates starved the government beast.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. -Calvin Coolidge

Some papers were taken aback by Coolidge's sudden fame. The New York Times resented the fact that a policy it admired had been promulgated by a figure unfamiliar to its editors.

I am further left, I am more progressive, than anyone in the state of Kentucky"

economist can be a political scientist, but the opposite is difficult for political scientists

le laissez-faire va être une chose du passé

The market is not too old for the government to be a crutch .

There are also specific cultural fetishes and phobias unique to France. No European country pursues so rigid a linguistic policy as France, a nation that has always viewed its language as both an antiAmerican and an anti-English bulwark.

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Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

I am the government.

American foreign policy and social policy for decades. Christian fundamentalism in America has its roots in the history of the South after the end of the Civil War.