Quotes About Policy

What we need is NOT a Green New Deal but a Green Smart Deal.

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

the more bureaucrats there are, the more laws are needed to keep them fed. I

One of my more sharp-tongued respondents, dryly observed, when asked if nationalization of railroads was being considered, "Yes sure its being considered. There's hardly a bad idea that isn't being considered. If you think of a bad idea that isn't being considered, call me up collect. I'd like to hear about it. - pg 129

A mere month and a half after 9/11, the structure for a new governmental scheme was in place. The

Ramrodded through Congress by the Bush administration, the bill was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives

fighting the war on drugs and supporting civilian authorities

or the inordinate influence of corporate powers on governmental decision-making.

As a result of the Pentagon's giveaway program, more and

Miss Hunter leaned toward Stormy. "Well, as you also may know, ever since the year when Dylan Jackson was nominated for and won prom queen without his knowledge, it's been school policy to inform all nominees that they have been selected as a candidate for prom queen.

He didn't seem to understand yet was that I didn't really care about the ways of Washington.

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

But in free nations, the votes so weighed or so counted must decide. A perfect free government is one which decides perfectly according to those votes; an imperfect, one which so decides imperfectly; a bad, one which does not so decide at all.

The essence of a civilised age is, that administration requires the continued aid of legislation.

The sort of taxation tried in America, that of taxing everything, and seeing what every thing would yield, could not have been tried under a Government delicately and quickly sensitive to public opinion.

The mode of governing the country, according to the existing laws, is mostly worn into a rut, and most administrations move in it because it is easier to move there than anywhere else.

The time always comes in which nations and women even the most stupid perceive that their innocence is being abused. The cleverest policy may for a long time proceed in a course of deceit; but it would be very happy for men if they could carry on their deceit to an infinite period; a vast amount of bloodshed would then be avoided, both in nations and in families.

The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.