Quotes About Policy

As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure that comes before them, lest it be thought that their validation, invalidation, or interpretation of it is driven by their desire to expand or constrict what they personally approve or disapprove as a matter of policy.

I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.

Many of the libertarian entrepreneurs who only want the government to leave them alone have simply forgotten how important government research, public education, and immigration policy are to Silicon Valley's long-term success.

We need to think about what Silicon Valley can contribute to the country - not just that somehow government bureaucrats should listen to our way.

You know what they want in the Central Valley? They want water.

Our teachers are valuable, and our public policy should reflect that.

From fully funding nutrition programs to protecting children from liquid nicotine poisoning, I have focused many of my efforts in Congress on advocating for polices that invest in our most valuable resource - our children.

Economists agree about economics - and that's a science - and they disagree about economic policy because that's a value judgment... I've had profound disagreements on policy with the famous Milton Friedman. But, on economics, we agree.

We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.

When it comes to health care policy, we keep failing to take seriously the value of human relationships. The cost of this oversight is staggering.

Conservation is an American value, and it is lacking from this bill.

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

Obviously the federal government has the ability and the right to have their currency and to create the kind of policy that they believe will promote American values.

That is, cleaning up pollution is usually far more expensive than preventing pollution, just as doctors usually find it far more expensive and less effective to try to cure already sick patients than to prevent diseases in the first place by cheap, simple public health measures.

China's leaders who mandated family planning long before overpopulation in China could reach Rwandan levels. Those admirable

China's leaders who mandated family planning long before overpopulation in China could reach Rwandan levels.

averaged over many cases, leadership does tend to affect economic growth.

In 1948, a married couple with the median income and two children paid only 2 percent of its income in state, federal, and social security taxes. In 1991 they paid 30 percent.

The president of Harvard changed admissions rules to keep Jews out

en España tenemos una sanidad y una educación pública que funcionan razonablemente bien, pero no tenemos una vivienda pública digna de tal nombre.

Périodiquement, le FMI accorde aux pays surendettés un moratoire temporaire ou un refinancement de leur dette. À condition que le pays surendetté se soumette au plan dit d'ajustement structurel. Tous ces plans comportent la réduction, dans les budgets des pays concernés, des dépenses de santé et de scolarité, et la suppression des subventions aux aliments de base et de l'aide aux familles nécessiteuses.

la fréquence des supplices est toujours un signe de faiblesse ou de paresse dans le gouvernement. Il n'y a point de méchant qu'on ne pût rendre bon à quelque chose.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.