Quotes About Policy

And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.

Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.

When the banks crashed the global economy in 2007-08, it was they who received a bailout while the rest of us got austerity.

I have met people who have received E.U. funding and regretted it.

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

You have to have a sense of what it looks like, not from the point of view of the policymaker but from the point of view of those who are at the receiving end of your policies.

I am for deporting all recent unattached illegals. I am for a local citizen panel to consider certification of those who have been here 25 years and have family and community and have been law-abiding and tax-paying.

We believe that settlement expansion policies pursued in recent decades by successive Israeli governments have facilitated the process of de-facto annexation. It has complicated the dialogue between the different communities.

Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses.

We simply can't spend our way out of a recession.

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

We are in the middle of an education recession.

A government can't cut its way out of a recession any more than you can dig yourself out of a hole.

Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.

You don't have to look any farther than the state of California to know that having a 'Gordian knot' of conflicting measures acting upon on your state budget is a recipe for disaster.

Too often in Washington, we only look at the recipient side: How does the budget affect either those who receive or don't receive benefits.

The government must recognise that taxing retailers differently is reckless.

It is important to recognise near- and medium-term risks to the inflation outlook.

We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign or domestic policy.

My dad has spent 20 years of his life working in child protection and writing policy for organisations across Australia in order to recognise and safeguard against abuse.

The Government has correctly recognised that this E.U. law cannot all be changed into domestic law at once.

The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.

If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists.