Quotes About Policy

The rise of inequality and fall of unions are closely linked.

This is the final bubble. The US government now has to keep printing money to keep things stable. Maybe when the economy booms again they can hold off—but that might be a while.

Planners frequently destroyed "unslumming slums" because these areas violated their doctrines

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Let's compete freely. Goddam tariffs! Free trade and free seas—that's what's right!

Russia's just trying to solve her own problems, Mr. Dunross, one of them's the U.S. containment policy. They just want to be left alone and not surrounded by highly emotional Americans with their overfed hands on nuclear triggers.

I make it a policy never to argue with drug lawyers: they have decent arguments and the best drugs.

We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates are going to be. We don't know what our interest rates are going to be. We don't know what our energy costs are going to be. All these uncertainties are being driven by the Government's agenda. What we really need to do is get Government to step back.

The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.

The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't think that uncertainty over what the tax rate will be for someone that makes a million dollars a year has that big an impact on the economic growth rate in the country.

As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.

Uncertainty is killing this economy.

You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

You can't have a regime which continuously subsidizes things; as inflation rises, you keep prices of certain things unchanged.

I look at the progressive policies that have marginalized black dads. They push them to the side and say, 'You're not needed.' Uncle Sam is going to be the dad: he's going to provide for the kids; he's going to feed the kids.

It's possible that in the future, women could be drafted not only into the military... but actually drafted into combat. I'm very uncomfortable with that.

I feel very uncomfortable with respect to looking at inflation.

I'm uncomfortable with men making decisions that affect women's health.

We should not only look at the short-term economic benefits of fossil fuels but also at the bad news for climate change. We should therefore not greet the fossil fuel age unconditionally.

The 'anchor baby' thing needs to be fixed... Anchor babies are an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born of non-Americans. It's wrong, and it's immoral.

In the legislative arena, especially when the country is closely divided, compromises tend to be the rule the day. But when judges rule this or that policy unconstitutional, there's little room for compromise: One side must win, the other must lose.

Obamacare was ruled to be unconstitutional. We've always known that Obamacare was unconstitutional.

I'm not a policy wonk - I'm somewhere between being undecided and a surrogate.

For years, we have underestimated the challenges of mass immigration.