Quotes About Policy

Policy is not that complicated! One only needs a clear conscience and therefore, a bad memory...

foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

during the Asian financial crisis the United States and other Western countries demanded that the Asians take three steps--let bad banks fail, keep spending under control, and keep interest rates high. In it own crisis, the West did exactly the opposite on all three fronts.

The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in the fact that it renders impossible the abuse of the power of the government to dispose of the possessions of its citizens by means of its monetary policy and thus serves as the solid foundation of economic liberty within each country and of free trade between one country and another.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

We have to stop pretending that we are dealing with a rational counter-party. You know, these people are caging children at the border.

You can't have protectionism within a free trade agreement. It's an oxymoron."

You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should also ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?

To take by violence is not to produce, but to destroy. Truly, if taking by violence was producing, this country of ours would be a little richer than she is.

it cannot fail to be admitted, that when protectionism raises the price of things, the consumer loses the difference. But, then, it is said, national labor is the gainer. No, it is not the gainer; for since the Act, it is no more encouraged than it was before, to the amount of fifteen francs. The only thing is that, since the Act, the fifteen francs of John Q. Citizen go to the metal trade, while before it was put in force, they were divided between the ironmonger and the bookseller.

The system of protection and the colonial system are, then, only two aspects of one and the same theory. To hinder our fellow-citizens from buying from foreigners, and to force foreigners to buy from our fellow-citizens, are only two consequences of one and the same principle.

legislators have almost always been ignorant of the object of society, which is to unite families by a common interest.

If, then, it is politic to protect national Labor against the competition of foreign Labor, it is not less so to protect human Labor against the rivalry of mechanical Labor.

Laissez faire, laissez passer.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.