Quotes About Policy

I don't like the fact that C.F.P.B. exists, I will be perfectly honest with you.

We all understand that the Affordable Care Act is not working perfectly. In fact, any major piece of legislation like this has to be tweaked over time, has to be improved over time.

Obamacare. Get rid of it. Period.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

If Brexit happens, there will have to be change - whether people want it or not - around work permits. It won't be freedom of movement for European players, so that landscape will change.

The United States appears to be a debtor nation in perpetuity.

If you under-invest in these areas of crisis, it becomes a persistent drag on growth.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

A striking illustration of the fact that true policy does not regard only the immediate necessities of the hour, but must ever look still more keenly to the future.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

Pranab Mukherjee

There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.

The easiest way to ruin any country is to sell its public sector business entity to the private sector company.

Many strategies are not strategies in the sense of strategies.

Only fools are glad when governments change.

it is a scientific product made in the political laboratory of the Nation

the personal man is eliminated to a phantom, everything becomes a revolution of policy

The case for democracy is that voters in the aggregate will make better decisions than a lone monarch or dictator would.

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

I hope the EPA will listen to the many votes over the years in Congress opposing cap-and-trade and rescind that proposed rule.

I always felt the gifts you need as governor were more suited for my personality. I'm a good team player, but I'm not a policy wonk. In Congress, you need 218 votes to make anything happen. When you're governor, you're the CEO of the state. You establish the vision and standards for the state. You're the leader.