Quotes About Policy

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeor never.

You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

There should be a path to earned legal status for those that are here. Not - not amnesty - earned legal status, which means you pay a fine and do many things over an extended period of time.

Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.

Let us fashion together a new world order.

You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.

American political conversation had become a space free from imagination and aspiration. Rather than talk about the future, we talked about policy; rather than talk about what's right and just, we talked about what's realistic and lawful; rather than discuss values, we discussed strategies. It was this dull, neutral, largely hollow space that Trump so easily filled with his crudeness, cruelty, and lies.

A movement exists to create change while a party strives to govern.

The existence of alternative facts had become policy.

Russian law in fact gives the prime minister no authority over the military.

The elite gets things wrong, says Douglas Carswell in The End of Politics and the Birth of iDemocracy, 'because they endlessly seek to govern by design a world that is best organized spontaneously from below'. Public policy failures stem from planners' excessive faith in deliberate design. 'They consistently underrate the merits of spontaneous, organic arrangements, and fail to recognize that the best plan is often not to have one.

The real tragedy of nationalised education is how little innovation it has seen.

Economists are quick to speak of 'market failure', and rightly so, but a greater threat comes from 'government failure'.