Quotes About Policy

Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

The doctrine of laisser-faire will not work in the material world.

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

As a teacher, his task was not to make policy but to follow the policy made by the Department.

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

a lot of lives in Vietnam were wasted by the folks driving those big desks in Washington. It's easy to make a decision when you don't have to look the people in the eye who have to carry it out. And reminding people of that is my purpose with this book.

Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.

Social Security is neither social, nor secure.

Yes, I know, if the American Indians had enforced such a policy none of us pale-faced honkies would be here. But the Indians were foolish, and divided, and failed to keep our WASP ancestors out. They've regretted it ever since.

It is not enough to fill your juries, your advisory panels, with creative artists. You must put us in positions of policy control.

The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.

Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests].

The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.

Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy.

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.

competition policy should embody explicit distributional concerns. It

it is wrong to see today's high inequality as the product of forces over which we have no control,

There is a profound middle-class nostalgia for the days of British protection....