Quotes About Policy

The implications are simple. If past prices contain little or no useful information for predicting future prices, there is no point in following technical trading rules. A simple policy of buying and holding will be at least as good as any technical procedure. Moreover, buying and selling, to the extent that it is profitable, tends to generate taxable capital gains.

No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add.

Another contemporary example is the "war" on drugs—where the government and munificently funded civic groups systematically distort and even invent scientific evidence of adverse effects (especially of marijuana), and in which no public official is permitted even to raise the topic for open discussion.

Before women got the vote, there were no nuclear weapons);

Under capitalism, we are deprived of the power to decide whether we want to produce more hospitals or more breakfast cereals. Under socialism, this freedom would be regularly exercised.

Oh, don't be absurd, man.' The Prime Minister sat back in his chair. 'Come on. We can't just ban a thing because we can't control it.' The minister responsible for health and safety looked startled. 'I don't see why not. It's never stopped us before.

I also hold a settling of questions by the referendum to be an unsatisfactory procedure, because there are no simple political questions which can be answered merely by Yes and No. The masses are also more prone even than Parliaments to be led away by heterodox opinions, and to be swayed by vigorous ranting. It is impossible to formulate a wise internal or external policy in a popular assembly.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

After 23 June 2016, the U.K. has to reorient national policy on many dimensions.

I am very concerned about junk food in the schools.

It's federal jurisdiction, so the federal government can approve pipelines.

We think climate change is important enough to get its own select committee. It would be in addition to the Energy and Commerce Committee's jurisdiction.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

This idea that if you're pro-environment you're anti-energy is just something we've got to change, so that attitude is something we're working on very much.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

We should not use the heavy hand of government more than it is justified.

My view is that Justin Trudeau will raise taxes on everyone.

Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.

Kansas and this country have been rewarding illegal immigration for a long time. Here in this state, that's going to stop the moment I take office.

It's time we stop illegal immigration in Kansas.

I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.

In the U.S., hospitals are rewarded for keeping hospital beds full. That's the market at work. The question is: should we work for the market, or should the market work for us?