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Quotes About Policy

In exposing to the entire world the work of the ruling classes, as expressed in the secret diplomatic documents, we address the workers with the call which forms the unchangeable foundation of our foreign policy: 'Proletarians of all countries, unite!' "31
~ Arthur Herman
Some states banned the teaching of German in private and public schools alike.
~ Arthur Herman
Just the Human Genome Project alone is the Full Employment Act for bioethicists.
~ Arthur L Caplan
What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
~ Arthur Laffer
O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) In 2013, the number of press reports increased by 19%, and the number of policy customers through SNS also increased by as much as 27%. Furthermore, public awareness of the Commission recorded 52.8%, a 1.3% points increase compared to the previous year, and the overall awareness of the ACRC's major policies also increased.
~ Aury Wallington
O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) Whenever the ACRC released a new policy, it made a feature report by issue to communicate with the people. When an important policy issue occurs, the Chairman and high-ranking officials directly and actively held media interviews and contributed to newspapers for the better understanding of the people
~ Aury Wallington
If anything, Prevent, the government's counterterrorism policy charged with identifying young people at risk of extremism, was primed to overreact.
~ Azadeh Moaveni
And for matter of policy and government, that learning, should rather hurt, than enable thereunto, is a thing very improbable.
~ bacon francis ii
Above all things, good policy is to be used, that the treasure and moneys, in a state, be not gathered into few hands. For otherwise a state may have a great stock, and yet starve.
~ bacon francis xiv
The wisdom of a law-maker consisteth not only in a platform of justice, but in the application thereof; taking into consideration by what means laws may be made certain.
~ bacon francis xvi
Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.
~ Nick Clegg
I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
~ Barney Frank
Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.
~ David R. Ellis
Rare is the election campaign that truly hinges on a single issue.
~ Anne Applebaum
Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
~ Omar Bongo
When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.
~ David Malpass
In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.
~ Samantha Power
During the early 1990s, Mexico's domestic political sensitivities meant that it rarely extradited people who had committed crimes in the U.S. After NAFTA, extradition numbers began to increase until they surpassed 100 a year in the late 2000s.
~ James G. Stavridis
The U.S. government has rarely, if ever, used the criminal history of a certain immigrant population in determining if the whole community should be allowed to remain in the country under a humanitarian program, like TPS.
~ Opal Tometi
A crucial responsibility of any central bank is to control inflation, the average rate of increase in the prices of a broad group of goods and services.
~ Janet Yellen
Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.
~ Grover Norquist
A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.
~ Elvira Nabiullina
America, the self-described greatest nation on Earth, has the highest incarceration rate on the planet.
~ W. Kamau Bell
It's appropriate for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time.
~ Janet Yellen