Quotes About Policy

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.

We are the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have a Medicare for All type of program, and that's an idea whose time has come. It is the morally right thing to do.

I believe Don't Ask Don't Tell is morally wrong, wrong for our military, and counter-productive.

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.

We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

I always like to say, Bill Clinton created more millionaires and billionaires than any president, but you know what, more people moved out of poverty. Middle-class income - all-time high.

Do you want to use your tax dollars to educate more people who can't get jobs? I want to make sure that we spend our money where people can get jobs when they get out.

Under Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson, more people will have coverage, and we protect those with pre-existing conditions.

Let's close all the Islamist mosques.

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

Women especially are often asked to choose between being a mother and being a leader. Without adequate policy support, too many women face not only financial barriers to balancing motherhood and leadership, but cultural stigmas too.

To understand the motivations behind Chinese government policy decisions, look no further than their impact on State-Owned Enterprises.

But the actual arguments advocated by Secretary Mellon had nothing to do with a "trickle-down theory." Mellon pointed out that, under the high income tax rates at the end of the Woodrow Wilson administration in 1921, vast sums of money had been put into tax shelters such as tax-exempt municipal bonds, instead of being invested in the private economy, where this money would create more output, incomes and jobs.[8

Under these escalating wartime income tax rates, the number of people reporting taxable incomes of more than $300,000— a huge sum in the money of that era— declined from well over a thousand in 1916 to fewer than three hundred in 1921. The total amount of taxable income earned by people making over $300,000 declined by more than four-fifths during those years.[11

Cuanto más grande sea la diferencia entre los precios del mercado libre y los precios decretados a través de leyes de control de precios, más graves serán las consecuencias del control de precios.

I am the same as I was, and do not alter; it is you who have changed. What has happened is this: you took my advice when you were still untouched by misfortune, and repented of your action when things went badly with you; it is because your own resolution is weak that my policy appears to you to be mistaken.

Again, wherever there were tyrants, their habit of providing simply for themselves, of looking solely to their personal comfort and family aggrandizement, made safety the great aim of their policy, and prevented anything great proceeding from them; though they would each have their affairs with their immediate neighbors.

Democracy is incapable of empire

We're kidding ourselves if we think we can opt out of these decisions. Every policy the government adopts, and every individual choice you make, implies that a valuation has been made, even if no one has been honest enough to own up to it or even admit it to themselves.

Anyone who insists that running a modern economy is a matter of plain common sense frankly doesn't understand much about running a modern economy.

una póliza de seguros depende de la ignorancia mutua. Una