Quotes About Policy

Well, I'm going to try to make a real difference in Washington's spending patterns.

The first iron rule of American politics is Follow the Money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision.

I thought there might be some grand design I did not understand, but the government's policy clearly was not working, because India was still poor. I was determined to learn more, so I became interested in economics. This book is another unintended consequence of the government's policies.

decision by consensus is inherently conservative.

developing countries typically have higher inflation, and developing countries also have higher growth.

By focusing only on jobs and inflation—and, in effect, only on the former— the Fed behaved myopically, indeed politically.

Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision. As an aside, that initial

Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at that time. This misleads, as much as those beautiful photographs of a past holiday abstract from the heat, the mosquitoes, and the lack of connectivity. Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision.

Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.

The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

The only difference between Republicans and Democrats is the velocity at which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on the door.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

There will be a new regulatory environment and each government will carry it out in different ways, some as partners to business, others as adversaries.

Funny how the experience of one person could have such an impact on billions of others. Pryce wondered what that said about the way the world was run. Nothing good, she was sure of that. All politics is personal, Pryce thought. It turns out all policy is personal, too.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

And the great Liberal party which in 1882 was vigorous, united, supreme, is shrunk to a few discordant factions of discredited faddists, without numbers, without policy, without concord, without cohesion, around whose necks is bound the millstone of Home Rule. Indeed,

And our Republican Constitution left even the supremely important policy of exactly how to define, prosecute, and try such offenses as murder, rape, and robbery to the diversity of state legal systems.