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Quotes About Policy

Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.
~ Manmohan Singh
Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.
~ Wen Jiabao
Let's not pretend we're in a global free market when it comes to agriculture. Every country protects, for good reason, its agricultural industries.
~ Justin Trudeau
Our national focus will be security, with the goal of 'a Europe that protects.'
~ Sebastian Kurz
Affordable health care that protects people with pre-existing conditions is a priority for Kansans, and it's been one of my top priorities since taking office.
~ Sharice Davids
I want to be proud of this country, but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them.
~ Shepard Fairey
We should protest to ban NEET altogether.
~ Vetrimaaran
I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.
~ Martine Syms
Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.
~ Joy Reid
The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.
~ Enric Sala
The border is safe; it's secure. El Paso is the safest city in America. Let's own that. Let's be proud of that. And then, I think, good policy can follow from that, better outcomes included.
~ Beto O'Rourke
Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work.
~ Carl Hart
There is no way that anyone who - besides the folks that want to plain ignore facts - there's no way that anyone can say that by building that wall we are not going to accomplish a more secure border. It's just proven. We can do this.
~ Matt Rosendale
I would be able to provide a different perspective and act independently of the Government in the decisions that have to be made by the President.
~ Tony Tan
We must deregulate, we must provide an investment climate by giving incentives.
~ Nawaz Sharif
Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.
~ Barton Gellman
Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.
~ Trevor Phillips
does not refer to political rivalries
~ Ezra F. Vogel
Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation
~ Fareed Zakaria
war is not just an act of policy but a true political instrument.
~ Fareed Zakaria
For many decades, the world needed to learn from America. But now America needs to learn from the world. And what it most needs to learn about is government—not big or small but good government.
~ Fareed Zakaria
Today's self-professed socialists want greater government investment, new and expanded safety nets, a "Green New Deal" to address climate change, and higher taxes on the rich. Bernie Sanders himself makes clear his
~ Fareed Zakaria
deconstruction of the administrative state." For four decades, America has largely been run by people who openly pledge to destroy the very government they lead.
~ Fareed Zakaria