Quotes About Policy

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

When historical relationships are taken into account, it is difficult to ascribe the house price bubble either to monetary policy or to the broader macroeconomic environment.

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

The anti-American policy is the one that keeps oil prices up. The way to do that is to help OPEC limit the amount of liquid fuel available.

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.

I have always fought for farmers getting better prices.

I support negotiating authority to lower prescription drug prices.

If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President Buhari.

Medicare should be allowed to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices on prescriptions.

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.

One of the most difficult decisions for any prime minister is when to give up on a bad but long-cherished policy.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi worked to make the country safe.

Prime minister Manmohan Singh has put the country on global platform by adopting the right economic measures.

One of the fundamental responsibilities of any Canadian prime minister is to get our resources to market.

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.

You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.

As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens.

The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

As prime minister, I was conscious of walking in Whitlam's footsteps as our government set about creating a companion to Medicare, the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change.

I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.