Quotes About Policy

The explicit distinction between those who are fit only to study and those who are history's actors not only expresses contempt for intellectuals but also denigrates anyone who requires evidence, rather than power and emotion, as justification for public policy.

For most companies, twelve weeks of maternity leave is standard, but I personally feel it's best to try for four to six months, if possible. That's

Farmers could do better if the government didn't meddle and the free market was allowed to take its course. And we could all grow at least some of our food, if we invested a bit of work.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

or even mid September 1793, when Terror—the policy of intimidation—was officially declared "the order of the day" and the Law of Suspects was passed, which made it far too easy for a citizen to be suspected and imprisoned for counter-revolutionary sympathies or even for apathy, and which greatly expanded the powers of the Revolutionary Tribunal.

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.

I am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.

The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama represented somewhat different party factions, but they both embodied wonkery, a vision of competence and expertise governing to some extent above ideology, in which there are assumed to be 'correct answers' to policy dilemmas that a disinterested observer could acknowledge and the right technocrat achieve.

There are a number of much less expensive alternatives to detaining immigrants than locking them up somewhere.

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

Obama wants people, as many people as he can get, covered by the government, exchanges, however you want to phrase it, and the more the better, and the sooner, the better, making it impossible to take it away. Meaning, making it impossible to repeal Obamacare.

We need a wall or a sophisticated fence, as long as it secures our border.

You know they've come to this point where they want to blame climate change for quite literally everything now, and sorry, but the Green New Deal is not going to solve that.

Being a bureaucrat means never having to say you're sorry.

If the tax loop holes that allow tax avoidance were shut down, it would go some way to sorting out our finances, would it not?

While some national security advisers have eschewed the Scowcroft Model and sought to 'operationalize' the NSC or pursue their own policy agendas without regard to the cabinet, the president and the country are best served by the NSC's adherence to its intended 'honest broker' advisory role.

There is nothing compassionate about Biden's lax border policy, not for the poor souls who have been lured into the arms of criminal human-smugglers, and not for the American people, who already are suffering the consequences of what can only be described as a secret government-sponsored invasion.

Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.