Quotes About Policy

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies.

At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me.

Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.

In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.

The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.

The time has come to develop integrated global policies.

A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.

What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

Laws are the DNA of government. They must evolve with time.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

congress - that great, benevolent asylum for the helpless

In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.

He rejected the policy of seeking a direct accommodation with the Nazis at the expense of the smaller states of Europe.

I think the rich, whether idle or not, are already taxed in this country to the very highest point compatible with the accumulation of capital for future production.

national compulsory insurance for all classes for all purposes from the cradle to the grave'.

A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.

Political opposition... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

In John Adams's worst nightmare, the story of the American Revolution assumed a different formulation: "The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the earth and out sprung General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod—and thence forward these two conducted all the policy, negotiation, legislatures, and war.

Hope is a terrible gift. The return policy is heartbreak.