Quotes About Policy

Activists demanded that economists pay more attention to inequality, which economic development had often seemed to exacerbate.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

But that's why you pay for insurance, right? If you never file a claim, then they've beaten you.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Every policy that begins on the assumption of keeping someone weak forever is doomed to fail.

Fifth, while the current mood, reflected in the Dodd-Frank Act, is to limit the LLR's powers, the right response is to increase them while subjecting the LLR to equal-treatment principles that restrict favoritism.

We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it.

It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.

The true measure of effectiveness for the new Environmental Protection Agency will be how fast they put themselves out of business.

structure of the social division of labor. Many firms and industries must make fundamental changes to long-held business models in order to adapt. Further, governmental policy and legislation sometimes preferentially supports innovation by manufacturers. Considerations of social welfare suggest that this must change. The workings of the intellectual property system are of special concern. But despite the difficulties, a

A few decades from now, the current laissez-faire attitudes to sugar - now present in 80 per cent of supermarket foods - may seems as reckless and strange as permitting cars without seatbelts or smoking on aeroplanes.

The true value of food goes beyond price, and once we collectively start to realize this once again, the challenge will be for policy makers to build food environments that encourage people to make better food choices rather than berating them for making bad ones.

when the government decided that in the light of an increased security threat what London really needed was a smaller police force.

We decided to go back to basics and put the frighteners on some snouts." "Really?" "We adopted a proactive intelligence-gathering policy utilising appropriate stakeholders in the community and pre-established covert human intelligence sources. "And nobody can put a frightener on a covert human quite like Lesley can.

We didn't bother to handcuff him, which surprised Agent Reynolds. Kittredge told her it was Metropolitan Police policy to avoid handcuffing suspects unless physical restraint is necessary—thus avoiding the risk of chafing, positional asphyxiation, and injury sustained by falling over your own feet and smacking your face into the pavement.

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

Ultimately, however, the administration's plan included a watered-down version of Sheila's idea.

then monetary policy has at best only short-lived effects on output and employment.

I said that best practices in monetary policy had evolved during the Greenspan years and would continue to evolve. But

That's why I often said that monetary policy was not a panacea—we needed Congress to do its part. After

had helped make the Depression as terrible as it was.

the new administration was leaning toward moving consumer protection duties outside the Fed

the new president will push for action on many fronts.