Quotes About Policy

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

La cosa importante per il governo non è fare ciò che gli individui fanno già, e farlo un po' meglio o un po' peggio, ma fare ciò che presentemente non si fa del tutto.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.

What is raised by printing notes is just as much taken from the public as is a beer-duty or an income-tax. What the Government spends the public pays for. There is no such thing as an uncovered deficit.

By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some.

But we're at a place in our political history when passing legislation through the House with bipartisan support is considered by some folks a greater evil than the problem it's intended to solve.

La libertad y la democracia vienen a significar lo que el sistema requiera

But until a theoretical explanation -based on human choice – for self-organized and self-governed enterprises is fully developed and accepted, major policy decisions will continue to be undertaken with a presumption that individuals cannot organize themselves and always need to be organized by external authorities.

Godwin and Shepard (1979) pointed out a decade ago that policy scientists were doing the equivalent of "Forcing Squares, Triangles and Ellipses into a Circular Paradigm" by using the commons-dilemma model without serious attention to whether or not the variables in the empirical world conformed to the theoretical model.

Die wichtigste Lehre für die Politikanalyse und -gestaltung, die sich aus der hier skizzierten intellektuellen Reise ableiten lässt, lautet, dass Menschen komplexere Motivationsstrukturen und mehr Fähigkeiten zur Lösung sozialer Dilemmas mitbringen als die Theorie der rationalen Wahl annimmt.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.

I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current writing teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.

We had physical constraints that helped us to focus our attention, to zoom in on the real policy constraint. That isn't the case in the division. Over there we have excess capacity going through our ears. We have excess engineering resources that we succeed so brilliantly in wasting. I'm sure that there is no lack of markets. We simply don't know how to put our act together to capitalize on what we have.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

Hadrian controlled the empire in a way which had no precedent. What he did, at first perhaps by instinct, but later almost certainly as a calculated and largely successful policy, was to take the established dynamics of imperial rule and aristocratic behaviour and expand them beyond anything that had been seen before.