Quotes About Policy

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.

No party in the US can hope to rule without the support of Jewish money and Jewish power in the media and academia.

In Jewish eyes, 'anti-Semitism' is any policy which works against a policy of the Jewish leadership.

politics?" "A necessary evil that on rare occasions works without corruption, abuse, and waste.

In fact, Bush's tax cuts increased the amount of revenue collected by more than 30 percent from his first year as president to his last, just as Reagan's and Kennedy's tax cuts increased federal revenue after they were passed. As economist Thomas Sowell argued, "Obama knew then that tax rates and tax revenues do not automatically move in the same direction. In other words, he is lying when he talks as if tax rates and tax revenues move together.

Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.

I operate a pretty strict muting and blocking policy on Twitter.

Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does reach into the Internet.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a 'third force,' independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.

I believe in a strong two-party system, and when one party is losing so spectacularly, it emboldens the other party to overreach and become a cartoon of itself, invoking awful things like - I'm just spit-balling here - child separation policies and trade wars.

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

Our oceans cover two-thirds of what my grandfather called our water planet, and the part of the ocean that falls under the jurisdiction of the United States covers an area larger than the country itself.

By scrapping the government's centrally dictated density targets we'll ensure that the right type of new homes are built where they're needed, ending the glut of one- and two-bedroom flats.

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

Way back in 2000, the EPA was poised, and, in fact, had drafted a rule, to specially regulate pollution - water pollution and other types of pollution - from power plants, but the energy industry pushed back pretty significantly.

No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome.

In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens.

Tea Party sympathizers are more conservative on abortion policy than typical Republicans.

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.