Quotes About Policy

Clinton was Reagan's greatest achievement. He carried forward the Republican agenda by combining a postindustrial fatalism—regulation wasn't possible, austerity was unavoidable, budgets had to be balanced, crime was a condition of culture, not economic policy—with a folksy postmodern optimism.

The job of economic theorists is to prove theorems. The job of policy economists is to figure out which theorems to apply.

Deregulated marketplace: a brilliant method by which profits are privatized and losses are socialized.

A Wall for the Mexican border was passed, and billions approved in 2006 [H.R. 6061 (109th): Secure Fence Act of 2006] , with the votes of Senators Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Ouch! Facts hurt.

collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.

Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities.

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

décadas enteras de mala política, de inmensos desequilibrios económicos, de pésima educación no pueden más que llevar a una comunidad al suicidio o a la histeria.

Selective paternalism, for those on low incomes or for other groups needing state assistance, is perhaps even worse than general paternalism, since the minority are denied the opportunity to overturn the rule democratically. The

In October 2016, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said: The use of cash-based assistance has been a real game changer in the way we help refugees and we have now decided to make it a worldwide policy and expand it to all our operations, where feasible … Refugees know best what they need. The broader use of cash-based assistance means that many more will be able to decide how to manage their family's budget. This will help them lead more dignified and normal lives.

signed into law in 1955 as the Limited-Profit Housing Companies Act.

Se puede tener un Estado barato con pocas obligaciones o un Estado caro con muchas. En México pretendemos tener un Estado barato con muchas obligaciones.

Lo cierto es que la primera nueva costumbre que el país adquirió fue la de negociar el incumplimiento de sus leyes.

Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we've started invoking national security and other shibboleths.

Whenever I hear and see a politician or a military leader, a bank of American flags at his back, trying to convince us of the rightness of a policy or a deed that will cause harm to others; when I am almost convinced myself that setting humanitarian concern in abeyance can be justified in the interest of a greater good, I pause and ask myself what my brain-smoked friends would have to say.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

I don't think people realize the fight that goes on in nurses' hearts--- sticking to a hospital's legal policy versus acting on humanitarian impulses.

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.

Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.

Unfortunately, some in Washington remain tied to the dogma that responsible energy development cannot be achieved without taking a wrecking ball to the environment.