Quotes About Policy

We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.

Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.

Every country has a founding mythology. For Americans, it starts with our first president's youthful encounter with a cherry tree and refusal to tell a lie. Mr. Trump would do well to find inspiration in that story, which goes to the heart of what makes America different - and our foreign policy effective - around the world.

I try to use my influence and empower my community to always question the status quo - whether it relates to broader policy issues or YouTube gossip.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and other economic and social platforms are not trying to build businesses, they are trying to build countries. Countries with laws, law enforcement, borders, and economic policy.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

It's the oldest trick in Washington - when presented with a policy solution you don't like, characterize it as the bogeyman.

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

It is this obsession with GDP and FDI growth and a facile belief that this growth in the GDP would trickle down to the poor as well, that has led to the neglect of the genuine concerns of the poor in the country.

The benefits of globalization do not trickle down automatically. It takes politics to make sure that there is a benefit.

It is argued by our GDP obsessed policy planners that eventually the money being made by the stock market operators or the IT industry would trickle down to the poor farmers in terms of ancillary jobs that would be created. But the fact is, that this has not happened, despite the boom in the stock market and the IT industry.

Along with opportunities, there also exist many other tricky and complex issues to be managed in India. These include tackling both policy-level challenges and infrastructure challenges.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket science. We've done it before successfully at the presidential level and tried it several places at the state level.

And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger.

If we were to raise interest rates too steeply, and we were to trigger a downturn or contribute to a downturn, we have limited scope for responding, and it is an important reason for caution.

Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

As for my state of Mississippi, our governor, Phil Bryant, said the state could not afford the matching funds required to trigger the federal match for Medicaid expansion. We won't do it even though in 2014, the federal government would pay over $50 for every one dollar Mississippi chips in.

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.