Quotes About Policy

No longer are technology and cyber issues confined to tech geeks in some backroom. In the digital age, IT issues are front and center. They are central to what government does and how it does it.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.

E-commerce, telecom - those things have to be captured by the new NAFTA.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.

I believe that businesses will do what is best for their business. I don't know that the government needs to be stepping in and telling them, 'This is what you will do.'

I'm telling you that there is no silver bullet to keep home prices from going down or to prevent all foreclosures.

Now that Europe has developed through deforestation and fossil fuel use it is telling Brazil not to develop through deforestation and fossil fuel use. Bolsonaro is the backlash against such hypocrisy.

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

Entitlements seem to grow with prosperity; not only because they are indexed to inflation or GDP, but also because a prosperous country tells itself it can afford more benefits.

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we need a new stadium. They are instruments of state policy.

Leftists are fighting back against Trump not with policy differentials, but rather with insane rhetoric and temper tantrums.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.

It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs.

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.

The bottom line is that our government is not intelligent about how it pursues the public interest, because its decisions are not informed decisions (and its interest is generally not the public's).

This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.