Quotes About Policy

Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's.

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.

We believe that - the President believes that the economy will continue to grow, that the economy will continue to create jobs, and that we need to do everything we can to enhance that growth and enhance that job creation.

Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politics, that are the great dissemblers.

But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.

Inflation via loose monetary policy is in effect a tax, but one that does not have to be legislated and that tends to hurt ordinary people more than elites with real rather than monetary assets.

We need to promote creedal national identities built around the foundational ideas of modern liberal democracy, and use public policies to deliberately assimilate newcomers to those identities. Liberal democracy has its own culture, which must be held in higher esteem than cultures rejecting democracy's values.

In the hands of good leaders, such a system can actually perform better than a democratic system that is subject to rule of law and formal democratic procedures like multiparty elections. It can make large, difficult decisions without being hampered by interest groups, lobbying, litigation, or the need to form cumbersome political coalitions or educate the public as to their own self-interest.

The policy issue that has raised the greatest challenges to national identity is immigration, and the related issue of refugees. Together, they are the driving force behind the upsurge of populist nationalism in both Europe and the United States.

In the past decade, the distance between those who see nuclear disarmament as the best policy for global peace and stability and those who see nuclear deterrence as the cornerstone of the world order has increased. The division is often stark and binary, with little middle ground, save for the world's greatest nuclear power, the United States, who confusingly appears to pursue both, mutually exclusive policies simultaneously.

Los grupos económicos pueden definirse como un conjunto de empresas de naturaleza y especialidades diversas, dirigidas de acuerdo a una política común […], manteniendo éstas, al interior del grupo su autonomía jurídica» (el énfasis es nuestro) (Anaya, 1990, p. 19).

En ocasiones, las administraciones gubernamentales han confundido el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo —establecido desde hace seis sexenios— con una planificación de largo plazo. Esto es un error.

En fin, instalado ya en el limbo ambiental, sin voluntad y conocimiento en el gobierno, ni recursos, ni visión o programa, México enfrenta una peligrosa y perturbadora regresión ambiental.

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.

Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.

Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.

Busing is no good. When you bus kids, they don't earn nothing.

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America.