Quotes About Policy

Bad policy tends to be done in a rush.

We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy.

China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting in sex-selective abortion and tens of millions of 'missing girls' as well as forced abortion and sterilization campaigns.

In truth, ending DACA will cost us tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.

Our Cuba policy was a major obstacle to getting things done in the hemisphere and a source of tension around the world.

I believe the GOP should pitch its big-top tent around fiscal conservatism and a muscular foreign policy rather than carnival bark outside the sideshow tents of gay marriage and reproductive choice.

This is 2017, nobody should be sleeping in a tent on the concrete in the middle of Martin Place - it's not safe for them.

I did not allow tent encampments on the streets when I was mayor of San Diego.

I strongly believe that if we would allow tent encampments on the sidewalks, people are going to die on the sidewalks, and we're better than that.

I'm not up for changing the Tenth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment or the Second Amendment.

I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.

The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.

Due process policies such as tenure are put in place to protect good teachers from being fired without cause. They aren't there to protect 'bad' teachers.

The Knesset was right to limit the president's tenure to seven years.

Whether politicians are dealing with complex policy problems or trying to communicate with the electorate, it makes sense to establish a clear, long term narrative underpinned by forward-looking policies to deliver on its vision.

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

Barack Obama was first elected after a period of profound failure by elite and government institutions, from finance to foreign policy to Hurricane Katrina, and his first term immediately and unapologetically enacted a flurry of government solutions.

I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

The task for governments across Europe is to take a practical approach that can meet our humanitarian obligations in both the short and long term.

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.