Quotes About Policy

The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.

The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.

One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a 'neo-liberal' ideology which said that all we need to do to make this thing work is to get deficits low, keep inflation low, and take down barriers, and then everything would be fine.

Health-care costs when I got into the industry in '88 were 16 percent a year inflation. When I got out in 1997, they were less than 1 percent.

Government influences your life every day. If there's a war, they're not drafting guys my age.

Industrialists have begun to realise that they would probably be better at influencing policy themselves, rather than depend on some political stooge or corrupt bureaucrat.

I want to be influential as a legislator.

It's important to engage with governments around the world in how they're thinking about AI - to help inform them.

The more we educate folks, the more it will help them make informed policy decisions.

We live inside a democracy, and you know, public will matters in a democracy. I just hope it's informed public will, and frankly, when the decisions are made, you understand the costs.

When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.

Most people would agree that infrastructure is something government should do.

Doing something about infrastructure is something I would like to see while I'm governor.

The states should have much more responsibility for infrastructure building.

I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure bank in Chicago. I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors.

We believe infrastructure is key to economic growth, and we will do what we can to develop infrastructure in India.

I have been asking for Canada to take cybersecurity and other issues seriously and ensure that Huawei is not allowed to contribute to our 5G infrastructure.

In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.

Don't make government work like a business... it's inherently inefficient.

French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.

The best legislative initiative - is the absence of one.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. I've never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular.

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.