Quotes About Policy

And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.

The U.S. Embassy in Havana may be reopened, but outside its gates, an open society with more freedom for its people is still absent.

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.

I see the government operating the way the founders intended.

I think we'll still be operating coal in 2030. Whether we will be in 2040, I think, is a question, or in 2050.

The FHA manual was perhaps the single most detrimental document in the history of urbanism in the United States. With a few lines of anti-density, racist planning policy, the federal government essentially forced the creation of the suburbs and the near-complete disinvestment of the inner city.

What George was thinking was that the late king Herod had been unjustly blamed for a policy which had been both statesmanlike and in the interests of the public. He was blaming the mawkish sentimentality of the modern legal system which ranks the evisceration and secret burial of small boys as a crime.

Why has the car stopped? Ah! I said with manly frankness that became me well. There you have me. You see, I'm one of those birds who drive a lot but don't know the first thing about the works. The policy I pursue is to get aboard, prod the self-starter, and leave the rest to Nature. If anything goes wrong, I scream for an A.A. scout. It's a system that answers admirably as a rule, but on the present occasion it blew a fuse owing to the fact that there wasn't an A.A. scout within miles.

He had spent years writing about the Masons' rich tradition of metaphorical iconography and symbols, and knew that Masons had always been one of the most unfairly maligned and misunderstood organizations in the world. Regularly accused of everything from devil worship to plotting a one-world government, the Masons also had a policy of never responding to their critics, which made them an easy target.

Energy transitions are not new. They have been going on for a long time and unfold over time. Previous energy transitions have primarily been driven by technology, economics, environmental considerations, and convenience and ease. The current one has politics, policy, and activism more mixed in.

For four decades, U.S. energy policy was dominated—and its foreign policy hobbled—by the specter of shortage and vulnerability

Shortly after Cheniere, Freeport put its application in to the government to transform its import facility into an export facility. But unlike Cheniere, it did not get a quick approval. Nothing seemed to be happening. Someone explained to a frustrated Smith, "In Washington, the first application is an application. The second application is public policy.

In 2019, EVs were less than 3 percent of new car sales in the United States. Some 189 zip codes—0.2 percent of the 43,000 in the country—represent 25 percent of EV sales, and all are in California. The main driver is government policy, as it is around the world.

The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy.

In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.

The system decides you can't run schools in the summer.

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.

Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.