Quotes About Policy

The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society.

We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy.

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society.

Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off as a result.

Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society.

It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.

I think the less fracking there is, the better it is for the economy and society.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs.

In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment.

IPL does not allow Pakistani players because they are dangerous.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

There are far more cases in which politicians knew what they wanted to do, and then just leaned on economics—sometimes very bad economics—for support.

On a number of issues, a bipartisan majority of the [economics] profession would unite on the opposite side from a bipartisan majority of Congress. —Arthur Okun (1970)

Similarly, if we ever get immigration reform, it will likely be forged in a series of political compromises with no coherent principles or philosophy. I