Quotes About Policy

Our hope is that policy changes come out of Washington that entice corporations to spend the massive amounts of cash they have sitting in reserves.

[On reducing the federal government:] Starve the beast.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

The OECD similarly looked at many countries to establish the relationship between tax and growth. It came to the conclusion that for every 1 per cent of a country's economic output that is taken by tax, the output per person falls by 0.6 to 0.7 per cent.

There is no technological magic bullet that will make the government as smart as it is powerful.

Killing foreigners is no substitute for protecting Americans.

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

What a happy conception, then, was it for Congress to apply this simple rule, that the will of the majority shall govern...

Whenever socialism has been tried, it has failed.

The Free idea Policy from Government always fail and never works, if you give a home to someone for free you will never turn that person into a taxpayer nor a homeowner that takes care of and has pride for their home as they never knew what it took and the sacrifices made to have a mortgage and be a part of the American dream

Sorry about being late," Trina said. "I'd make up a great excuse, but honesty's the best policy. Mark made me go up to the stream and we … you know." It took a lot to surprise Mark these days, even more to make him blush, but Trina had the ability to do both. He stammered as Lana rolled her eyes.

the IPCC now spoke comfortably of consensus and endorsed those mysterious concepts of sustainability and energy that renewed itself. We even thought that this way somehow we could save the planet and grow richer as well, a more pleasing outcome than the uncomfortable truth.

Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

The resulting July 1979 report, now more than four decades old, connected policy with scientific understanding of climate change, and was signed by four of our most distinguished American scientists—David Keeling, Roger Revelle, George Woodwell (lead author), and MacDonald.

Enlightened policies in the management of fossil fuels and forests can delay or avoid these changes, but the time for implementing the policies is fast passing.

This national energy policy of the last four decades is, in my view, the greatest dereliction of civic responsibility in the history of the Republic. And it is worse today than ever.

Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.

If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.