Quotes About Policy

If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.

Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.

An important instrument of economic policy-making in a market economy is credible, consistent, and timely communication.

As for when to reform the yuan, there is no timetable yet.

Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is closely linked to the main contours of New Labour policy. This has been a government that has majored on hyperbole, but in fact, from the outset it was hugely timid and cravenly orthodox.

Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

Mr. Trump's travel ban has never really been about security. Rather, it's the tip of the spear in a much broader battle: to drastically curtail immigration to the United States that is changing the complexion of our country.

Income splitting is a cynical policy, designed by a tired government short on ideas, now reheating old concoctions as their next campaign policy menu.

The number-one defender of the Second Amendment rights is the National Rifle Association. The NRA works tirelessly to elect pro-Second Amendment candidates, and it fights fearlessly to win tough public policy battles and preserve those rights.

I think it was a major mistake to revisit Title II.

I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.

Germany has to put the broader European interest on the same level as its own national interest, or the euro is toast.

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.

Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue.

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.

I think good governance and good politics can go together.

Religious-liberty protections are one way of achieving civil peace even amid disagreement. The United States is a pluralistic society. To protect that pluralism and the rights of all Americans, of whatever faith they may practice, religious-liberty laws are good policy. Liberals committed to tolerance should embrace them.

Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

The Netherlands has been too tolerant to intolerant people for too long.