Quotes About Policy

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

GDP statistics and Keynesian macroeconomic policy were mutually reinforcing.

Indeed, the idea of the economy as a machine, regulated by appropriate policy levers, took firm hold.

GDP is the way we measure and compare how well or badly countries are doing. But this is not a question of measuring a natural phenomenon like land mass or average temperature to varying degrees of accuracy. GDP is a made-up entity. The concept dates back only to the 1940s.

As we seek to reform our schools, we must take care to do no harm.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Disraeli had no wish to go as far as this, and instead proposed a conference of the great powers of Europe (Austria–Hungary, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia) to persuade the Turks to reform their administration.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

another policy review sparked by George Bush's "gut instinct

America's longest war is the war on drugs.

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Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.

Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!

A desire for a small government is nothing new, of course. At the end of the nineteenth century, a U.S. government official proposed closing the office of patents. Everything of importance had already been invented, he said.

Nuclear weapons are not a defence.

There is a good reason why stocks are not reacting to Fed policy as they have in the past. Investors have become so geared to watching and anticipating Fed policy that the effect of its tightening and easing is already discounted in the market. If investors expect the Fed to stabilize the economy, this will be built into stock prices long before the Fed even begins to take its stabilizing actions.

For us that is not a particularly striking event, but for a Muslim country to allow a Christian school to remain open when others were closed was indeed unusual.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.