Quotes About Policy

A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and of the [First] Amendment...the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the State so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience and the freedom of religious worship. Any attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation.

Handguns are a public-health problem.

It was not until the spring of 1859 [two years later] that the children [the survivors of the murdered emigrant train] were officially turned over to the government officials, and bills for their care were made… The policy of letting the government pay seems to have been general…

Proclamations and policy changes on paper will not create the fundamental changes to DNA that organizations need to catalyze change.

Current youth policy and parenting advice teeter between high-anxiety child protection and high-anger child punishment. It would appear that children are fragilely innocent until the moment they step over some line, at which point they become instantly, irredeemably wicked.

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

It was in the spring of 1939 that Hitler finally set in motion a "racial hygiene" policy that he had wanted to pursue for many years, namely the systematic killing of those who were mentally or physically disabled. He made his intentions clear in an address to the Nuremberg Rally tenyears earlier when he had argued that if of the million or so children born each year in Germany 70,000 to 80,000 of the weakest were removed, the nation would be made correspondingly stronger.

desde 1948 miles de palestinos han tenido que abandonar sus hogares, se han visto despojados de sus casas, de sus tierras. Nuestra labor es evaluar la política de asentamientos que todavía está produciendo más desplazados. Donde nos encontramos ahora, aquí en esta colina

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

Individual children are separated from their parents only when those parents cross the border illegally and are arrested. We can't have children with parents who are in incarceration.

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

So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.

While this country has always had a generous immigration policy, we simply cannot condone individuals coming here illegally.

Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.

I believe that we must attach greater importance to the issue of industrial policy in Europe.

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.

If you vote to leave the E.U.... we will have additional flexibility to help industries who really need it.

We can't have our industry progressively destroyed by cheap Chinese imports.

Government on its own is always inefficient.

Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.

A robotic arms race seems inevitable unless nations collectively decide to avoid one.

I'm against using Petrobras to combat inflation.

Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.