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Quotes About Policy

The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
~ Philip Larkin
The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.
~ Zach Braff
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
~ Calvin Trillin
It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.
~ Condoleezza Rice
The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.
~ Frank Underhill
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.
~ Martha Roby
The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.
~ Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
Governments never supply prosperity. At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work. Usually they suppress it.
~ Randy Gage
The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government
~ Richard M. Nixon
I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.
~ Stephen Harper
School choice is one of the strongest ways we have to educate our children, .. believes in school choice and he is going to work hard to enact school choice.
~ Ari Fleischer
I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.
~ Allen West
My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).
~ Lawrence Lessig
Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Usually the president is kind of the initiator of the idea, then Congress makes it work.
~ Tim Kaine
The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
Liberals don't ask 'Does it work?' They ask 'Does it equalize?'
~ Dennis Prager
Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.
~ Harry Browne
If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
~ Al Franken
Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
~ Unknown
Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.
~ Annie Lennox