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Quotes About Policy

Let's face it, we really did need something like this in this country to fight childhood obesity.
~ Jill Biden
The strong arm of government should not force Americans to buy health-care products that they have reasoned objections to.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
For risk management reasons, we need to make sure we hit our inflation objective at the same time we're at full employment.
~ Charles L. Evans
Our objective should be to have a competition of ideas... I think it's a golden age in terms of policy ideas when it comes to Democrats and health care.
~ Brian Schatz
Environment conservation without stagnating development is the objective of our government.
~ Pinarayi Vijayan
We've had an assault rifle ban in our country, and that did not accomplish the objectives. We had Columbine during the time that that ban was in place.
~ Asa Hutchinson
However much we might sympathize or agree with EPA's policy objectives, EPA may act only within the boundaries of its statutory authority.
~ Brett Kavanaugh
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.
~ Joseph Story
My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.
~ Francois Hollande
The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.
~ Michel Temer
I believe that we do our country a disservice when we make it harder for new American immigrants to abide by the rules of the road and obtain drivers licenses.
~ Martin O'Malley
As a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice from economists. Others interested in helping the lawyers out need not apply.
~ Richard Thaler
The Under-secretary of Understanding.
~ Norton Juster
I hold that the real policy of England – apart from questions which involve her own particular interests, political or commercial – is to be the champion of justice and right; pursuing that course with moderation and prudence, not becoming the Quixote of the world, but giving the weight of her moral sanction and support wherever she thinks that justice is, and wherever she thinks that wrong has been done.20
~ Orlando Figes
Sometimes the government is the last to know.
~ Orson Scott Card
Con man?" he said, stuffing the brochures back in the duffel bag and zipping it up. "Absolutely not. That's a legitimate policy. I've sold hundreds of them, and not a single policy holder has ever been abducted by an alien.
~ Connie Willis
This sounds like you're saying that national security is more important than the Constitution.
~ Cory Doctorow
I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate.
~ Cory Doctorow
after Anonymous brought in its Real Name Policy. They
~ Cory Doctorow
In other words, America was in crisis and there was no coordinated national health policy. And worse, like a slow-motion Reichstag fire, the disease itself was being weaponized and politicized by Trump and his followers. Much like the 1933 arson attack that allowed Germany's newly elected chancellor Adolf Hitler to consolidate power, the pandemic provided cover for Trump and Barr to do likewise.
~ Craig Unger
Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction.
~ CrimethInc.
The most obvious question which this study suggest is: How far in a State can a recognized moral wrong safely be compromised?
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
That was back when state governments valued education and realized the economic and social value of making it affordable.
~ Walter Isaacson
A democracy," Kennan wrote in a note to himself, "is severely restricted in its use of armed forces as a weapon of peacetime foreign policy.
~ Walter Isaacson