Quotes About Policy

Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed.

My experience in government is there is a whole host of unintended consequences you have to think through. I can't un-know that, I find it harder now to offer simple solutions.

We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

It is not enough to simply dismiss policy, because it's too complicated or we're scared about what the unintended consequences might be.

I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.

The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.

The U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is almost completely ineffective, as many other countries, including the European Union, do not honor it.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Union.

I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.

We need to underline the need for Britain to depart from the European Union in an orderly fashion.

Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.

I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

Union members are fiscal conservatives, a lot of them.

Whatever threats Remain may continue to fire at us, they cannot answer the simple and most basic proposition: that only by leaving the European Union can we control the numbers coming to our country.

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance.